S01 E04: MANGUEBEAT | SOUNDS GOOD: a rhythmic history of Pernambuco
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OTHER EPISODES OF THE SERIES:
S01 E01: MARACATU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_KP7qgrkxo&t
S01 E02: FREVO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI4f2FfszWY&t
S01 E03: SAMBA DE COCO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLngy8tz0Ds
Chico Science said that "the collective man feels the need to fight". In the 1990s Recife and Olinda, there was a revolution, perhaps a lot more deep and inclusive than any other revolution in the history of this state, which carries a history of fights. The Mangue Movement, led by Chico Science & Nação Zumbi and Mundo Livre S/A, stuck a satellite dish into the mud and said to the world: listen to us. Listen to our accent, our beat, our rhythmic history. According to Fred ZeroQuatro, from Mundo Livre, "the goal was to engender an *energetic circuit*, capable of connecting the good vibrations from the mangroves with a worldwide flow network of pop concepts. Symbol image: a satellite dish stuck in the mud."
The mangue metaphor seems perfect: Recife, city of rivers, a city filled with land, in this decade, was at the peak of precariousness, sunken in its mud. It turns out that the mud of the mangrove, naturalized as the city garbage, is actually the hotbed of rich diversity. The mangrove is the meeting of the river and the sea. The manguebeat is the meeting of Pernambuco and the world. The manguebeat revolution was the inversion of the Pernambucano perspective towards themselves; it was the reclamation of self-esteem, of the almost nationalist feeling that sounds like a caricature, yet one that has a particular path in the history of Brazil.
The movement spread. Pernambuco returned to speak to the world, and different generations of artists from the most diverse fields stuck their feet in the mud and started expressing their art with an incomparable reach. Manguebeat wasn't the motor for this artistic proliferation, but maybe it was a key piece to unlock a state that was asleep.
REFERENCES
MELLO, Evaldo Cabral de. O Norte agrário e o Império, 1871-1889. Topbooks, 1999.
MELLO, Evaldo Cabral de. Rubro veio: o imaginário da restauração pernambucana. Topbooks, 1997.
TELES, José. Do frevo ao manguebeat. Editora 34, 2000.
TESSER, Paula. "Mangue Beat: húmus cultural e social." Logos 14.1 (2007): 70-83.
SOURCES
Chico Science & Nação Zumbi ao vivo no Cais da Alfândega (1994): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFCw8...
Programa Repertório Popular, com Chico Science & Nação Zumbi e Mundo Livre S/A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cM1j...
Chico Science & Nação Zumbi no Cultura Livre (1993): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u-Z7...
Chico Science fala em entrevista sobre a influência de Josué de Castro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g0wC...
Chico Science & Nação Zumbi no Programa Bem Brasil (1996): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjde8...
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