Fútbol y murga. El habitar de los clubes carolinos

Abstract

There is a strong temporal and spatial relationship between the practices of football and murga in the city of San Carlos, Maldonado. They are linked to local actors on a daily basis, and with extra-local actors during the competition seasons, with an alternating temporal intensity (winter for football and summer for murga).  The spatial relationship is generated by the fact that football clubs hold and promote both football teams and murgas in the same facilities. The objective is to detect the situations expressed by these cultural and social universes in their complex articulation and relationship. Hegemonic masculinity in the clubs where these activities take place is linked to the learning processes of a set of body techniques. The way of singing, the relationships with other masculinities and femininities; the hierarchies in the club, consumption, excesses, sensibilities, clothing…it is in this way that certain elements are acquired, giving meaning to the bodies that inhabit these clubs, disputing and testing the hegemony of knowledge, which also shapes up perceptions and appraisals.