Cultura Musical Periférica – A Atuação do Coletivo Grupo Poesia Samba Soul na Região do Capão Redondo

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The purpose of this research is to analyze the activities of a juvenile cultural collectivity carried out in the district Capão Redondo, in São Paulo’s Southern Side. The self-styled Poesia Samba Soul Group has created the Institute “Favela da Paz” (the Peace Slum) to serve as a cultural and experience interchange center, which further comprises a small recording studio used to record the musical production of local groups; sundry sustainability projects, plus a technology lab. By means of ethnographically-oriented and urban derive field research (see Guy Debord), the interactions and practices commonly adopted there – which serve as guidelines for the cultural/political actions used in the construction of the social and cultural identity of those youths from the ghetto districts – were recorded. Another subject of analysis was the efforts of this group to network with other groups that develop similar activities in several districts in São Paulo, in order to gather information concerning the multiple forms of juvenile leadership in abovementioned ghettos, their urban way of life, their cooperation and cultural associations. The study is based on the notion of culture in its political sense and as a sphere where conflicts, dissension and negotiations are settled. We have also focused on an analysis that takes into account the issues involving the spatial occupation and territoriality within the culture of this group. In carrying out this Research, we have used the works of such authors as D. Harvey, M. Santos, L. Kowarick, A. Marino, H. Maia, R. Williams, A.C. Escosteguy, among other.