“Olha ‘nós’ aqui nessa estrada”: a identificação contracultural e o rock poptyguar (1982-1993).

Abstract

The present dissertation aims to establish the parameters that characterize Natal's rock musical scene as representative of a group, as well as the process of identification of this group with the scenario. Understanding music as a practice, that is, as a musicality, the first chapter, aims to define the rock production as a way of life that combines aesthetic, performance, thematic, melodic and lyric elements for this we work the notion of musical genre and counterculture. The second chapter, introduces us into the aesthetic and performatic components. In this way, we make a brief biographical construction of the bands Fluidos, Modus Vivendi, Cabeças Errantes, Cantocalismo e Alfândega, and then we try to compose and understand the relations of identity and representative practices of the PopTyguar rock. In the third chapter we work on the thematic, melodic and lyric elements, from the analysis of the songs of the period, in order to work the more specific product of the scene: the music itself. In this chapter we highlight the possible elements of identification inserted in the musical compositions, in order to visualize more broadly the musical approach, as well as the 'triggers' that awaken the affinities between the involved subjects and stimulate them to adhere to the scenario. We use the methodology of musical analysis developed by Tatit, and discussed by Janotti Júnior, as well as the proposal of analysis presented by Napolitano, to propose the notion of musical scene; and in the studies conducted by Dapieve, Chacon, and Friedlander, to understand the characteristics of the scenario in question.Theoretically we rely on the discussions held by Hall about the concept of identity. Methodologically we base ourselves, above all, on the Oral History approach.