Abstract

GRACIO, Rita. Daughters of Rock and Moms Who Rock: Rock Music as a Medium for Family Relationships in Portugal. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais [online]. 2016, n.109, pp.83-104. ISSN 2182-7435.  https://doi.org/10.4000/rccs.6229.

This article discusses the role of rock musicking as a medium for family relationships. Drawing on qualitative data from interviews with women who self-identify as rock music lovers, it analyses intergenerational rock musicking processes and informal learning. Music, together with other activities, aesthetic materials, technologies and narratives, is an essential element in family relationships and part of the parenting cultural toolkit, both for fathers, as the daughters remember and describe them, and for the mothers themselves. For women rock fans who become mothers, rock music articulates more empowering versions of maternal subjectivities, and specific settings - such as car journeys - can constitute “music asylums”. Taking two dyadic family relationships (father-daughter; mother-children), I argue that family and domestic spaces are relevant when analyzing everyday rock musicking.

Keywords : family relations; intergenerational relations; moms and daughters; rock music; sociology of music.

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