Punk, ação e contradição em Portugal. Uma aproximação às culturas juvenis contemporâneas

Abstract

The article questions the relevance of punk in its extent and significant multiplicity, with reference to the Portuguese case. Based on results of an enlarged research about punk in Portugal, this article explores the cultural, social and symbolic meanings of this form of aesthetic expression that, appearing simultaneously as an ethos and a way of being in life, reveals a great heuristic potential for the understanding of identity and societal processes that currently are established around the musical scenes. The approach of punk in Portugal allows to resume the debate on youth cultures in the context of the still unfinished debate between cultural studies and poststructuralist theories, i.e., between the subcultural theory and post‑subcultural theory.

Keywords

• cultural sociology (Portugal)
• popular music
• punk movement
• subculture
• youth cultures