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Manguebeat

Mangue bit

The mangue bit or manguebeat movement is a cultural movement created circa 1991 in the city of Recife in Northeast Brazil in reaction to the cultural and economic stagnation of the city. The movement largely focuses on music, mixing regional rhythms of Brazilian Northeast, such as maracatu, frevo, coco and forró, with rock, hip hop, funk and electronic music.

The Coexistentialism of Chico Science and Brazil’s Manguebeat

Such terms line up neatly with the contrast in manguebeat between the formal city and the organic mangrove swamp. To consider such epistemological and ontological tensions, first I offer some reflections on the central image and concept of the music of Chico Science and manguebeat, that is, the mangue itself, or mangrove swamp.

(PDF) Culturas populares e identificações emergentes

Download full text PDF. Culturas populares e identificações emergentes: Reflexões a partir do manguebeat e de expressões musicais brasileiras contemporâneas1. Article ...

Chico Science

Francisco de Assis França (March 13, 1966 – February 2, 1997), better known as Chico Science, was a Brazilian singer and composer and one of the founders of the manguebeat cultural movement. He died in a car accident in 1997 in Recife, Pernambuco, at the age of 30.

Project MUSE Chico Science 20: Coexistencialismo

This article examines the repercussions of Recife’s “Manguebeat” musical and cultural scene regionally, nationally, and internationally twenty years after the movement’s explosive takeoff. It also compares and contrasts mangue with the poetry of the first generation of Brazilian modernismo, especially in regard to Oswald de Andrade’s ...