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The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze the presence of intersubjective asymmetries as an ethical, epistemological, and social challenge in a school. We explore various aspects of interaction between teacher, students, and researcher in school during a music room. A workshop of audiovisual narratives that has been made with teenagers in a Spain school with the aim that young people themselves documented their own musical practices through tools and narratives that are common outside of school (audio, photography, video, etc.). We based our work on the principles of participatory research, participants showed those meanings that they had music in their life, all aimed to all the work that serve to modify practices and musical activities at school that were taking place. Some of the obstacles found in workshop are described as barriers that relate to the processes of delegitimization of musical culture of youth reported previously and their knowledge in the school. This project began founding the presence of those intersubjective asymmetries as a challenge to constituting a community of practice and learning, where a pedagogical transformation was waited, new forms of teachers and students participation.