Movimento Cabaçal: hibridismo, conquistas e barreiras no underground cearense

Abstract

This research aims to examine how the Movimento Cabaçal interacted with the new paradigms of globalization and investigate the important factors in its creation process and aesthetic choices, growth and dispersal. Formed in Ceará, in the early years of the 21th century, presents a proposal centered on the fusion of rhythms and styles, geared to a redemption of non-academic pretensions of Ceará popular culture, giving new meaning to it by mixing with modern and exogenous rhythms like rock, soul music, electronic music and more. It was heavily influenced by other movements such as Mangue Beat (from Recife), and Massafeira (also from Ceará). It was proposed to house artistic expressions of various kinds, but had, as main and fixed members, the bands SoulZé and Jumentaparida, both from Fortaleza, Dr. Raiz (Juazeiro do Norte) and Dona Zefinha (Itapipoca). In their compositions, gained prominence regional issues such as drought, the land distribution issue, politics, religion, legends, historical characters, myths and folklore common to several regions of the state. The Movimento Cabaçal brought Ceará cultural heritage for an intense and reciprocal dialogue with globalized pop culture references, and in this way dealt with wins and losses, admiration and prejudice, and despite of any labels, left an undeniable legacy that will also be remembered and discussed throughout this study.