Molotov Suburb: creativity and punk resistance in the Meier neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro, in the 1980s

• Autor(a) principal: Jesus, Diego Santos Vieira de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Antíteses
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/antiteses/article/view/35660
• topic: Punk. Meier; Rio de Janeiro; Suburbs; 1980s.; Punk; Meier; Rio de Janeiro; Subúrbio; Década de 1980; Punk no subúrbio carioca no início da década de 1980

 The objective is to examine how Meier brought together conditions for the development of punk in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1980s. The central argument points that, in a context of redefining the suburb of Rio as a space for creative reinterpretations of national and foreign artistic genres and for the redefinition of locals with Brazilian redemocratization, Meier was a neighborhood easily accessible by young people who lived in the suburbs and had a specific closed location that allowed these young people to socialize with others who had the same musical interests and the same criticisms of the political-economic system and sociocultural, seen by them as oppressive. Appropriating rebellious aesthetics and behavior but not violence and adapting them in the process of reinventing national and Rio punk, the performance of punk bands in Meier - in particular the Molotov Cocktail - served as a stimulus for the creation of other bands that identified with the musical genre and attracted young people who adopted not only the challenge in the ways of dressing and acting, but in the manifestation of their criticism of the material precarious situation in which they lived in the Meier and other neighborhoods of the city and the state of Rio of January.