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Abstract

This article analyzes the cultural and musical movement known as Mangue Beat, focusing on one of its trademarks, namely the dialogue between international genres marginal to the pop and rock music canon (heavy metal, hip hop, reggamuffin) and Brazilian genres seen as regional and not canonized in the pantheon of national music (coco, maracatu, ciranda, embolada). The movement's emblem, the antenna stuck in the mud, combines local roots with permanent attention to global flows. The article argues that Mangue Beat overcomes the rift between popular music and youth music in Brazil, opened with the crisis in the emancipatory potential of MPB in the period of transition to democracy.