Tensions between the "independent" culture and the public cultural policy of the City of Buenos Aires

Abstract

This work has as aim treat on the initiatives of the civil society and is held as supposition orientador that they intervene in the definition of the public cultural politics. The artists and cultural managers are th ose who are mobilized in order that there is sanctioned a law that protects the spaces where they get out of a jam themselves. Methodologically one has worked across the observation participant and the ethnography, report of primary and secondary sources c oncerning the cultural production in the City of Buenos Aires. The "independent" sector, the artists are those who achieve visibility and present a problematics referred to the importance of a specific legislation for the sector since they are inspected by a public organism as if they were discotheques and not what they are. In the conclusion, one managed to state that they are they who write a law that was absent in the City to legislate his existence of cultural centers .