Entre copos, conversas e canções: um estilo boêmio de viver a cidade

Abstract

The thesis aims at analyzing a life-style designated as bohemia, in the city of Fortaleza, between the years 1964 and 1979. My approach comprehends trying to understand how participants of cultural movements (music, visual arts, theater, cinema, poetry), professional activities (journalism, marketing, architecture) or political activities (militants, student council participants) integrate a unique life-style in the city. Actions, behaviors, world perspectives and socialization manners will be analyzed under the strong influence of the military coup d’état occurred in 1964. The refusal to obey the rigor of the dictatorship and the existing censorship in the country will contribute to gathering different people with common interests, establishing paths through town, in an intersection of the artistic, political and cultural scenarios, whose main meetings happened in bars. Yet the process of urban expansion of the city and the emergence of cultural and political movements associated with an atmosphere of strong behavioral changes, characteristics of the designated counterculture, will be discussed. Therefore the city and the public spaces that appear in this context appear as a place for attitudes and antagonistic behaviors, where new characters can emerge. We also attempt to observe how bohemians and their modus operandi were adapted and are still lived nowadays in some bars in the city.