Insólitos sons da Amazônia? Experiência e espírito de época na cena e no circuito rock de Belém do Pará entre 1982 e 1993

Abstract

In this work I seek to discuss and understand if the current reports of individual and collective experiences, especially by musicians, producers and consumers of rock in Belém, communicate some sort of relation between a chronological period (going from 1982 to 1993) of the musical scene (Straw, 1991) and circuit (see Magnani) and a possible “spirit of the age” (Zeitgeist). Aiming to demonstrate those relationships, I observed and sought to establish a dialogue between the memory of the individuals, who experienced that period, and their specific transits through the city as well as the ownership and attribution of meaning to the spaces and experiences. Going beyond, the spirit of the time is not be “trapped” chronologically, but can (could) also currently be evoked through places that individualize speech and make the eighties a retrospectively peculiar period. Mindful of this, I know that this work also constitutes an element that cooperates and is inserted in such constructions, more than language, related to experiences of subjects. This work deals with communication, with Comprehensive Sociology, History and Philosophy in a pretty close way, without forgetting Anthropology, of course. Thus, the main thing for me in the development of this research was precisely observing the relationship of persons, its time, society and even temporality. It is not intended to present the history or even the genesis of rock in Belém, nor scrutinize it, but to discuss the interrelationships between a socio-historical education and the memorialistic content concerning a time in which the rock music scene and circuit gained momentum.