“Enjoying a sound”: youth and music in everyday school life and in Sociology teaching in high school

Abstract

Taking sociability as a central dimension to think about young people, this presence at
school is communicated by youth cultures performed by identity groups expressed in
the consumption of cultural goods and the display of typical looks and behaviors.
Based on this, this work reflects on the dimension of youth from a double perspective:
on the one hand, academic research with the application of 1313 questionnaires and
11 focus groups with high school students in Ceará; and on the other, the experience
as a Sociology teacher in the public network, using music as a didactic strategy as a way of thinking about youth, in which we highlight the creation of a didactic sequence
called the Youth Cultures Seminar. By making the student himself reflect on youth
representations in past and present musical identity groups, added to empirical data,
it allowed understanding youth and their dialogues with social and theoretical
representations of what it means to “be young” and what possibilities for reflection the
sociological perspective takes place in everyday school life on the topic.