Territórios de Liberdade: cultura, música e juventudes, dos festivais da década de 1970 ao Rock in Rio e o processo de redemocratização

Abstract

The dissertation intends to analyze the Rock in Rio festival during the period of "redemocratization", from the perspective of the youth culture that could emerge, spontaneously, becoming a propelling motto for the realization of a mega-event that was the target of political debates, religious and economic. A unique moment that makes the event, from the moment of its idealization, announcement, planning, organization and realization, a territory where they orbited – whether in newspaper reports, television news and publications – speeches, debates, silencing, erasures, narrative disputes, contradictions and idiosyncrasies of Brazilian society. To do so, we start from the analysis within cultural history, with a horizon where elements of our political and social history permeate. We problematized Brazilian rock and the idea that nothing had happened in the decade prior to the performance of the show, in order to differentiate the 1980s between the original and sui generis. Supported by the concepts of representation, memory, time and territory, we investigated the importance of Brazilian youth, understanding it as an agent of cultural, social, political and economic changes of that period.