Distortion and Subversion: Punk Rock Music and the Protests for Free Public Transportation in Brazil (1996-2011): 26 (Liverpool Latin American Studies) - Softcover

Rodrigo Lopes De Barros

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1800856148 ISBN 13: 9781800856141

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2023

Synopsis

An Open Access edition of this book will be available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. At the turn of the 21st century, the Brazilian punk and hardcore music scene joined forces with political militants to foster a new social movement that demanded the universal right to free public transportation. These groups collaborated in numerous venues and media: music shows, protests, festivals, conferences, radio stations, posters, albums, slogans, and digital and printed publications. Throughout this time, the single demand for free public transportation reconceptualized notions of urban space in Brazil and led masses of people across the country to protest. This book shows how the anti-capitalist, anti-bourgeoisie stance present in the discourse of a number of Brazilian bands that performed from the late 1990s to the beginning of the 21st century in the underground music scenes of Florianópolis and São Paulo encountered a reverberation in the rhetoric emanating from the Campaign for the Free Fare, subsequently known as the Free Fare Movement (Movimento Passe Livre, or MPL). This allowed the engaged bands and the movement for free public transportation to contribute to each other’s development. The book also includes reflections on the Bus Revolt that occurred in the northeastern city of Salvador, unveiling traces of the punk and anarcho-punk movements, and the Revolution Carnivals that occurred in the city of Belo Horizonte, an event that mixed lectures, vegetarianism, protests, soccer, and punk rock music.

About this title

About the Author

Rodrigo Lopes de Barros is Assistant Professor of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at Boston University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800856148
• ISBN 13: 9781800856141
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272