CARTOGRAFIAS CULTURAIS E AFETIVAS DO RECIFE NA DÉCADA DE 1980:

NOS PASSOS E NOS TONS DE CHICO VULGO E JORGE DU PEIXE

Abstract

This article seeks to show that MangueBit was constituted as a counterspectacle in Recife in the mid-1980s and early 1990s. We consider it pre-MangueBit, at a time when Recife was going through a deep social and economic crisis. The capital of Pernambuco offered little prospect of life for its poorest inhabitants, especially for the youth of the periphery. The dance gang Legião Hip Hop, from the Rio Doce neighborhood in Olinda, and the bands formed in the following years (Orla Orbe, Bom Tom Rádio, Loustal, Chico Science and Lamento Negro) served as a road map and were fundamental in tracing the path followed by a portion of these young people who developed a sense of belonging and reconfigured spatiality and sociability with Recife. For such an undertaking, the concepts arising from cultural and affective cartography supported our idea that music was responsible for the way in which Chico Vulgo and Jorge dü Peixe traveled from the periphery to the center, not as supporting actors or cheap labor, but as protagonists of their own stories.