Sociopolitical life in cultural markets in the city of Porto Alegre

Abstract

The possibilities of information and communication technologies combined with norms and rules of the global system have contributed to the transformation of cultural markets, recreating conceptions and arrangements between art-technology-market. The article discusses the sociopolitical implications of these transformations in the cultural markets, focusing the responses of the agents in different instances of political action in the city of Porto Alegre. The data are the result of a combination of different sources of research, including interviews with professional leaders and entrepreneurs in the world of culture, as well as reports and documents obtained from various websites. The argument that guides the analysis is that these transformations tend to produce different types of sociopolitical actions, such as mobilizations of new collective artists, new professional associations and reformulation of guidelines in associations previously existing, and presence in new and old public policy councils.

Keywords:
Cultural markets; Socio-political action; Porto Alegre; Economic sociology