Description
This thesis describes contemporary Catholic music from the production of the symbolic goods
offered by Father Fábio de Melo with emphasis on the shows as re-significances of new
practices in the Brazilian Catholic field based on co-relations and adhesions of the logics and
meanings of the field of industry cultural. The research is based on the premise that the artistic
production of the agent mentioned is linked to the new dynamics in the Catholic field,
including the inspiration of the new communities linked to the Charismatic Renewal. The
show and music receive new senses and representations marked by religious practices based
on emotion, festive and spectacular character. In order to corroborate this thesis that shows an
intense movement involving the concerts, the artists of the faith and a process between fields,
the Catholic and the cultural industry, it will be analyzed the agent's performances, his
musical reflections and the amplification of social networks widely used by the Catholic
denomination. The study will be based on a reconstruction of the senses of the Catholic fields
and the cultural industry, underlining the emergence and consolidation of new dynamics and
agents, under which emerges the artistic production of Father Fábio. The research will use the
following procedures for data collection: documentary research, interviews and participant
observation. From the theoretical-methodological point of view, the concepts of
deinstitutionalization of Danièle Herviu-Léger will be adopted; field, capital, property, and
symbolic capital from Pierre Bourdieu; television by John B. Thompson; ritual of Aldo Natale
Terrin.