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Scene. "Blues". Fortaleza. Subjects. (De)territorialization.
This thesis aims to analyze the trajectory of the “blues” scene in Fortaleza, based on its aspects of maintenance and transition, as well as its processes of (de)territorialization. As a time frame, the interval between 2000 and 2008 is defined. The year 2000 was marked by significant changes in this scene (characterized by the transition from the Blues Ceará phase to the Casa do Blues). The year 2008 represented the year immediately prior to the creation of Associação Casa do Blues, an institution that contributed/contributes to the production of “blues” in Fortaleza. For the investigation of the trajectory of the scene, the following analyses stand out: the historical-spatial context of Fortaleza in the 1990s and 2000s; of the music scene of Fortaleza in that period; the trajectories of the members of this space (mainly their relationship with the city); the changes that took place in the “blues” scene between 1998 and 2001; the spatial characteristics of this scene, from the year 2000, as well as its expansion processes both in the physical environment (beyond the city of Fortaleza) and in the virtual environment (through the development of social networks, from the 2000s). As a theoretical-methodological contribution, the thesis initially reinforces the concept of scene and affective cartography as well as the category of space, mainly from the perspective of Doreen Massey's reflections. Furthermore, the thesis emphasizes the use of the testimonies of the artists who were part of this scene; the hemerographic materials cataloged mainly through the newspapers O Povo and Diário do Nordeste; of the virtual documents produced by these subjects, when they socialized on social networks, as well as materials from maps and photographs that guide the spatialities developed by them through the “blues” scene in Fortaleza