BH é quem? BH é nóis: territorialização e apropriação das áreas centrais da cidade de Belo Horizonte pelos malados do funk

Abstract

Since the 1990s, the funk rhythm has been spreading throughout Brazilian cities, reaching the countryside and large centers. Belo Horizonte has gained importance in the national funk scene, with its passinho style, as was already happening in centers such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. This paper deals with the process of appropriation and territorialization of funk youth in the city of Belo Horizonte. In this work we consider funk to be one of the many manifestations of the Black Atlantic (Gilroy, 2001), and in the dynamics of the dances and meetings held by its listeners and practitioners, its forms of expression are born. In our research, we consider space to be socially produced, a dimension of society, a social instance and, therefore, a product and producer of social relations. From this perspective, the symbols, practices and socializations of young funkeiros make up space. The movement of these Young people in their relationship with other subjects/actors changes the dynamics of the spaces they frequent or travel through, which can be cyclical and encompass different territorialities. Dance and music are the areas we use to work with these young people and, in this sense, the dimension of the body is an important scale in the construction of this research. At this point, we understand that the body is also a territory and that the black body is limited in relation to the white body. How funk plays out in the lives of these young people is an important marker for building a profile of the young funkeiros from Belorizontina who dance the passinho malado on the streets of BH, in order to signal the extent of this sociability and the extent to which this culture appears in the lives of the young people who are the protagonists of the funk scene in the capital of Minas Gerais. With the spaces of Praça da Liberdade, the Santa Tereza Viaduct and the Centro de Referência da Juventude – CRJ – as the spaces of territorialization, we are also interested in knowing the forms of appropriation used by these young people and conceptualizing them as a formative and socializing process.