Práticas musicais em comunidades virtuais: etnomusicologia do ciberespaço?

In Actas del X Congreso SIbE, V Congreso de IASPM-España, II Congreso de músicas populares del mundo hispano y lusófono. Salamanca, Espanha.

This work addresses aspects of musical practices virtual communities developed since 2005, following the boom of Web 2.0. The concepts of "musical practices" and "virtual communities" are set to a brief preliminary definition to be followed by theoretical views collected from sociology, anthropology and ethnomusicology, as well as from research networks such as eMule, Youtube, Myspace and Second Life. After considering music and entertainment, convergence of media, hyper-interaction, recombination and re-use of audiovisual material and reformulation of the concept of intellectual property, this paper attempts to answer the following question: Can one be talking already of an "ethnomusicology of cyberspace" as an area of research?