About the research

Our research is centered on the Electronic Dance Music scenes and in the ways in which women who participate professionally (whether as DJs, music producers or event producers) claim their places of speech, greater visibility and social and marketing insertion.

Developed in two stages, the research took place initially in Canada, during the postdoctoral period of researcher Beatriz Brandão Polivanov at McGill University in Montreal (Canada). At a later time, the research continued to be developed in Brazil, allowing an analysis of the disputes and negotiations of these women from a perspective of both the “Global South” and the “North”.

Oursgoals

Investigate what are the main claims and ways of acting of women participating in contemporary scenes of electronic dance music in Brazil and Canada, from a perspective that takes into account the social, cultural and marketing specificities of each country.

Pesquisadores

Coodenadora

Beatriz Polivanov

Docente permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação da Universidade Federal Fluminense e professora do Departamento de Estudos Culturais e Mídia da UFF. Coordenadora do grupo de pesquisa MiDICom (Mídias Digitais, Identidade e Comunicação). Pesquisadora com financiamento do CNPq e FAPERJ. Possui pós-doutorado pela Universidade de McGill, Canadá; pós-doutorado, doutorado e mestrado em Comunicação pela UFF; bacharelado e licenciatura em Letras e Educação pela UFRJ. Seus temas de pesquisa atuais envolvem dinâmicas identitárias e performáticas na cultura digital e relações entre gênero e música, notadamente cenas de música eletrônica.

Bolsista Pibic pelo CNPq

Ana Julia Mattos

Graduanda de Estudos de Mídia na Universidade Federal Fluminense. Atual bolsista PIBIC pelo CNPq com o projeto de pesquisa Mulheres DJs e desigualdade de gênero: cartografando cenas musicais do Rio de Janeiro a partir de perfis em plataformas de redes sociais, sob orientação de Beatriz Polivanov.

researchers

Beatriz Medeiros

Doctoral student at the Postgraduate Program in Communication at UFF with co-tutorship with the Cultures of the Global South program at the University of Tübingen. CAPES and DAAD scholarship holder. Master in Communication from UFF and BA in Media Studies from the same institution. He is a member of the research groups MiDICom and MusiLab. In her current research, she investigates the performance and strategies of women drummers in underground rock, focusing on gender issues, creation of support networks and mediation in digital culture.

Andrews Mouta

Graduating in Media Studies at the Fluminense Federal University. PIBIC scholarship holder by CNPq in the period 2020-2021 with the research project Electronic music, gender and social networks: the (in)visibility of female DJs in Brazil, under the guidance of Beatriz Polivanov. Technologist in Phonographic Production at UNESA.

Andrews Mouta

Graduating in Media Studies at the Fluminense Federal University. PIBIC scholarship holder by CNPq in the period 2020-2021 with the research project Electronic music, gender and social networks: the (in)visibility of female DJs in Brazil, under the guidance of Beatriz Polivanov. Technologist in Phonographic Production at UNESA.