PUNKS IN RECIFE-PE: IDENTITIES AND REPRESENTATIONS IN THE 1980S AND 1990S
Punk; Identities; Culture; Memory; Representations.
This work aimed to analyze the formation of punk identities in Recife between the 1980s and 1990s. The research is ongoing. To achieve the proposed objectives, we use a conceptual framework that addresses the categories of culture, representations, identities and memory as interconnected components in what we understand as an identity formation. The study is based on the analysis of two documentary corpus, one of them referring to testimonies coming from participants in the punk movement in a broad sense. 24 statements have been collected to date, starting from July 2022, with a total of 27 expected by December 2024. The other set is the publications on the research object in the newspaper Diário de Pernambuco, a large circulation in the Pernambuco press, available in the Digital Hemeroteca of the National Library. Preliminary results point to the existence of a cosmopolitan scene in the city, starting in the 1970s with udigrudi, which will deepen in the following decade, when punk and other identities linked to more extreme rock effectively arrive in Recife, however, in a marginalized and peripheral way. Little by little, these new bodies begin to occupy and 'nomadize' different spaces in the city and surrounding areas, demonstrating their own dynamics, which were already well consolidated in the 1990s, however, starting to coexist with another thriving cultural scene, which partially alters their dynamics: the manguebit. The project was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, under number CAAE: 62380322.1.0000.9547.