Banca de DEFESA: CAIO BARBOSA NASCIMENTO

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STUDENT : CAIO BARBOSA NASCIMENTO
DATE: 31/03/2023
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Faculdade de Comunicação da UFBA
TITLE:

Pop culture and catholicism: tradition, ruptures and continuities in media productions by singing priests

KEY WORDS:

pop culture; Catholicism; tradition; video clips; singing priests; communication

PAGES: 220
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Comunicação
SUMMARY:

Taking as a starting point the complex and multifaceted relationship between pop culture and Catholic religion, this thesis investigates how priests linked to the artistic-media dispute the conventions, and mobilize alternative experiences, in the ways how Catholicism historically shares its images and performances in the commons. We held, at first, a discussion on how old and new media are articulated in the religious media field to produce public circulation of religious beliefs. We also propose that the concept of inculturation responds to the desires of historical agents of this religion to produce a message shaped by the values, languages and practices of its public, marking an opening in the way of dealing with non-hegemonic cultural formations in Catholicism, such as the case of groups and individuals who experience pop culture in their daily lives. In this sense, we reconstruct the course of the forms and levels of interaction between Catholicism and popular media, proposing some previous analyzes, to highlight the symbolic power game around these fields, which allowed us to glimpse the broader context in which the practices of the singing priests are inserted. Our deeper analysis focused on music videos and other media productions by Pe. Pontifex and some Catholic hip-hop actors in the United States; and, also, of Father Fábio de Melo, in Brazil. In the North American context, the analyzed productions were the music videos Count the Cost (2014) and Invasion of the Light feat Zion (2017), both by Pontifex; Everybody got to suffer (Stan Foruna - 2002); So Hood (FoundNation feat El Padrecito, 2012); and the advertisement Renew in Motion (Francisano da Imaculada, 2016). In the Brazilian scenario, we analyzed the clips of Protege (2017) and Perfeita Contradição feat Fagner (2015), as well as different images and texts by Fábio on social networks, comparing him to other Brazilian priests. Our look at these empirical objects and, from them, to their context, took place from the theoretical-methodological perspective of cultural studies, contemplating the propositions of Williams (1979) about structure of feeling. Based on this framework, it was possible to analyze both the norms, rules and values that were socially instituted by the religious field to build social performances and visualities, as well as everyday practices that are structured as alternatives based on the link with popular media culture. The analysis of videoclips showed that the dispute around the classification of images between icons and idols, as presented by Mondzain (2013), remains hegemonic in the work of historical agents of Catholicism, and that there are new iconoclastic configurations still active in the practice of some actors, symptoms of a crisis of the images that remain in the expressive creations of Catholic priests in contact with contemporary culture. The research results point to the emergence of new ways of placing the religious visual repertoire in the context of the social experiences of subjects who experience popular culture. In this movement, the very visual, symbolic, thematic and performative conventions of Catholicism are being disputed and transformed, at the same time that they influence the universe of popular media.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - PRISCILA VIEIRA E SOUZA - UFRJ
Externo à Instituição - LUÍS MAURO SÁ MARTINO
Interno - 1358197 - FABIO SADAO NAKAGAWA
Presidente - ***.666.405-** - JORGE LUIZ CUNHA CARDOSO FILHO - UFBA
Externa à Instituição - JUSSARA PEIXOTO MAIA - UFRB