The (re)foundation of culture and the (re)creation of identities in Chico Science and Nietzsche
Name: STELIO MACHADO BROSEGHINI
Publication date: 02/05/2025
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| JOSE EDUARDO COSTA SILVA | Coorientador |
| JULIO CESAR BENTIVOGLIO | Examinador Interno |
| LEONARDO FUKS | Examinador Externo |
| NELSON PORTO RIBEIRO | Presidente |
Summary: The research deals with the ideas of re-founding culture and recreating identities through art and, in particular, music, in the works of Chico Science, a Brazilian musician, composer and intellectual from the Manguebeat movement at the end of the 20th century; and Nietzsche, a German philosopher and intellectual from the 19th century. It initially deals with the historical context in which the country found itself during the 1990s, focusing on the social and cultural situation in Recife, where the Manguebeat Movement emerged and how it developed; dealing with the main characters and concepts involved in the music scene, especially the band Chico Science & Nação Zumbi. It then addresses the notions of cultural identity and cultural hybridism, how new identities are created through hybridism, and briefly investigates how Brazilian culture and music are founded on hybridism and cultural anthropophagy. From this, the relationship between Manguebeat, Tropicália and the anthropophagic modernism of Oswald de Andrade is shown. With the understanding of what Nietzsche understood by culture and what his project of cultural refoundation and creation of a German identity through music was, the Nietzschean influence on Brazilian modernists of the early 20th century is also demonstrated, especially Oswald de Andrade and his idea of anthropophagy, which also influenced the tropicalists and Manguebeat. Finally, an analysis is made of some tracks from the first two albums by Chico Science & Nação Zumbi, demonstrating how the Brazilian intellectual and his bandmates discuss the themes of identities and Brazilian culture through hybridism and anthropophagy, and construct new cultural identities, also using Nietzschean philosophy as a theoretical basis and parallels between the uses of history, myth, art and music in favor of culture in the works of these two authors studied.
