A cena das guitar bands em São Paulo na década de 1990: música e cultura juvenil

Abstract

This dissertation investigates the music scene of the so-called guitar bands, in the city of São Paulo in the 1990s. The guitar scene in São Paulo developed in the midst of several local independent scenes, from hardcore to metal, and punk in the late 1980s, had the first bands formed around 1989, such as Pin Ups and Killing Chainsaw. Before long or at the same time, in the case of Rio de Janeiro, bands with the same aesthetic arranged other scenes, not necessarily with the name of guitar, in cities like Campinas, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Curitiba, among others. The guitars were one of the first, if not the first, in Brazil to take on characteristics of indie guitar rock, a musical genre that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the mid-1980s. Nineteenth-century guitar bands are one of the first bands to present sounds like grunge in national territory, before the Nevermind explosion (released in 1991 by Nirvana), as Pin Ups’ first album, Time Will Burn was released in 1990, which shows a connection of this scene with an international movement of independent music considered “alternative” and “underground”. In this way, I seek to investigate what relationships the guitar scene establishes with the history of independent music in São Paulo, as well as investigate the scene itself, its actors, their tastes, their products, the devices they use in the city of São Paulo, and the collective social relations between the participants of the scene. It is observed throughout the research that the guitar scene leaves a legacy for the indie rock scene in contemporary Brazil being fundamental for the invention of a tradition of this scene and its identity.