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An Open Access edition of this book will be available on the
Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. At the
turn of the 21st century, the Brazilian punk and hardcore music
scene joined forces with political militants to foster a new social
movement that demanded the universal right to free public
transportation. These groups collaborated in numerous venues and
media: music shows, protests, festivals, conferences, radio
stations, posters, albums, slogans, and digital and printed
publications. Throughout this time, the single demand for free
public transportation reconceptualized notions of urban space in
Brazil and led masses of people across the country to protest. This
book shows how the anti-capitalist, anti-bourgeoisie stance present
in the discourse of a number of Brazilian bands that performed from
the late 1990s to the beginning of the 21st century in the
underground music scenes of Florianopolis and Sao Paulo encountered
a reverberation in the rhetoric emanating from the Campaign for the
Free Fare, subsequently known as the Free Fare Movement (Movimento
Passe Livre, or MPL). This allowed the engaged bands and the
movement for free public transportation to contribute to each
other's development. The book also includes reflections on the Bus
Revolt that occurred in the northeastern city of Salvador,
unveiling traces of the punk and anarcho-punk movements, and the
Revolution Carnivals that occurred in the city of Belo Horizonte,
an event that mixed lectures, vegetarianism, protests, soccer, and
punk rock music.
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