CONTEMPORARY ELECTRONIC FORRÓ: POP PERIPHERAL BRAZILIAN NORTHEAST
Electronic Forró; Nordestinity; Mano Walter; Pop-peripheral; Music Video.
Brazilian forró has a historical trajectory of stylistics and sonorous transitions that are affected, greatly, by an idea of nordestinity. This work seeks to investigate how this nordestinity is articulated, contemporarily, in electronic forró, in times when the consumption of music in the internet favors intense exchanges and displacements of music genres. To address this issue, we take as object three music videos of Mano Walter’s career, one of the exponents of greater commercial success in electronic forró. Through three vectors, vaquejada, ostentation and masculinity, we believe that the artist performs in his artistic signature an idea of nordestinity which reconfigures, and also reiterates, the ideas that permeate the very foundation of Brazilian’s Northeast as a region, inserting forró in a vast socio-technical network of pop peripheral music.