Catholic inflections and female complicities. Syncretism in a "fan club" in Buenos Aires

SEMÁN, PABLO; GALLO, GUADALUPE; SPATARO, CAROLINA

Youth identities in Argentina: beyond tango

Palgrave-Mac Millan

Año: 2012; p. 1 - 16

Through an ethnographic strategy, we were hoping to identify models of appropriation of an aspect of the "cultural offer" in a fan club, so as to determine their forms of representativeness later. But this path has a surprise in store. The fan club was the center of a dense activity, capable of hybridizing social and personal performance traditions which were crucial in terms of knowledge available in spheres these traditions crossed: mainly those of religions and personal transformation experiences. That way, the hypothesis this work intends to prove arose in the light of the ethnographic experience: the cult to the singer is developed amidst the double pathway of the deployment of Christian echoes (Catholic, to be more precise), and the assumption of "post-traditional" parameters in relation with sexuality.