Chico Science & Nação Zumbi: um estudo sobre o hibridismo e as relações entre música popular, mídia e cultura

Abstract

The aim of this thesis is to analyze songs of the group Chico Science & Nação Zumbi, from Pernambuco, one of the main initiators and organizers of Manguebeat, musical and artistic movement developed in Recife during the 1990's. The conceptual approach is based on hybridism, based on crossbred cultural peculiarities of Latin-American popular music. The songs analyzed were from the records Da Lama ao Caos (1994) and Afrociberdelia(1996). It is excluded, therefore, works by Nação Zumbi without the participation of Chico Science, deceased in February, 1997. The work is based on the study of the ways hybridism occurred in songs, in rhythm mixtures, genres and traditional information from Pernambuco and from Northeast (maracatu, coco, ciranda, embolada, baião, and so on) as well as musical formats traditional in North-American pop music and black music (rock, funk, soul music e rap) and Jamaican pop (reggae, raggamuffin and dub). The discussion is based on two points. First, on the theoretical-ideological debate that, partly, originated Manguebeat, considering traditionalist and essentialist positions upheld by Armorial Movement in the 1970's and consolidated in the thesis of Ariano Suassuna, teacher, writer and Secretary of Culture of Pernambuco between 1994 e 1998, and anthropophagic and hybrid positions taken by Manguebeat groups when they mix local traditions with cultural globalized information. Secondly, on the relation maintained by Mangue proposal and Chico Science & Nação Zumbi music with traditional mixtures present in Latin-American popular music, be them, Brazilian Samba, Cuban and Caribbean songs or Argentinean tango, what we believe proves and explains, in great part, Brazilian and Latin-American musical creativity