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.

researchers

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Beatriz Polivanov

Dpermanent professor of the Postgraduate Program in Communication at Universidade Federal Fluminense and professor at the Department of Cultural Studies and Media at UFF. Coordinator of the research group MiDICom (Digital Media, Identity and Communication). Researcher with funding from CNPq and FAPERJ. He holds a postdoctoral degree from McGill University, Canada; post-doctorate, doctorate and master's degree in Communication from UFF; Bachelor's and Licentiate in Letters and Education from UFRJ. His current research topics involve identity and performance dynamics in digital culture and relationships between genre and music, notably electronic music scenes.

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.

Ana Clara Martins

Bacharel em Psicologia pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) e graduanda de Estudos de Mídia na Universidade Federal Fluminense. Atual bolsista PIBIC pelo CNPq, participando do projeto de pesquisa: Música eletrônica e desigualdade de gênero: desafios e estratégias de mulheres DJs, sob orientação de Beatriz Polivanov.