Solidarity policies in pop music concerts’ fan camping sites

Abstract

There is a debate on how fan camps of foreign pop music concerts that occur in Brazil are emblematic to perceive residues of the coloniality (QUIJANO, 2010) relations and the embodied performance of gestures around the fascination by the foreigner in Brazilian youth culture. It is postulated, from Performance theories and from Latin-American Cultural Studies, that these camps stage disputes, but also solidarity upon vulnerability and alliance relations (BUTLER, 2018) among fans of pop culture. From three fan camps between the years of 2013 and 2017, we postulate that the “naturalized” Brazilian affection points to tension zones of the performance of being a fan: the sacrifice and the waiting as notes for the merit of being near the artist; the fabulations about the foreigner and about the dimensions of global culture in everyday life as well as the fascination with the image of power linked to constructions of partial citizenship of gender and race in the field of culture.

Keywords pop culture; performance; fan camp; solidarity; gender