The musician and his work in the new musical order of Belo Horizonte city

Abstract

This article, is a result of the doctoral thesis "The relation of the musician to the work: when the musician's work changes from unproductive work to productive in Belo Horizonte", defended in 2018 at the Faculty of Education of UFMG, has the object of analysis musician and his work in the city Belo Horizonte. The objective is to present discussions that were dealt with in the research on the current processes of commercialization of the work of the musician in the city, starting from the analyzes about the relations of the musician and his work initially understood as a specific human activity in producing sound, for example, and, secondly, how it is incorporated in the mercantile circuit in the city of Belo Horizonte. In the thesis, what was verified was that the scenario of exploitation of the musician's workforce in capitalism metamorphoses itself, creating new nomenclatures as kind of "makeup" of the exploitation of the music worker. The capitalist reproduction in this sector can be observed under various facets, such as, for example, laws to encourage culture, designed as a way of guaranteeing the reproduction of the capital involved in this activity, transforming it into an economic model of artistic production in Brazil. The text also has the sense of elucidating what the work of the musician is, which is quite diverse and multiple in the city of Belo Horizonte, once this is a "musical city", since even before its founding there were already musicians (Martins, 2006). In the history of music in the city, in the last decade of the last century, social and artistic movements established a new musical order, and the best example was the rebirth of the street carnival that reveals the performance of this musician in the new musical order of the city and in the commercial circuit as a worker