O pecado é não sonhar: reconstruções da rebeldia jovem através do heavy metal brasileiro da década de 1980

Abstract

This work analyzes Brazilian heavy metal of the 1980s and the questions it raises over the belief that the youth of that era had abdicated the status of transgressive collectivity it enjoyed throughout the twentieth century, especially during the 50s, 60s and 70s. Many voices that in previous decades were involved in political questioning, in the 80s , faced an alienating choice of media and a consequent institutionalization of rebellion.This paper hence analyzes this appeasement and disillusionment in Brazil in the process of democratization. Alongside this process , however, youth groups organized themselves in alternative spaces. Brazilian heavy metal in Brazil has been at the forefront of this movement. There is interest, therefore, in the the approach of this phenomenon in the lyrics of songs circulating in this context, understood as aesthetic-social constructs, as proposed by Rodrigo Duarte, as well as its consequences on the way they dressed, the album covers, the system of production and distribution of these products and the relationship itself between that community and cities that welcomed it.