Street Carnival In Belo Horizonte

Interstices of Social Insurgencies and Cultural Market Appropriations (2010 a 2020)

Abstract

This research aims to analyze changes that occurred in Belo Horizonte's street carnival, between 2010 and 2020, which turned it into the biggest tourist-cultural event in the city. The study was qualitative and used bibliographical and documentary research as methodological procedures, the speech of actors who participate in the organization of the party and semi-structured interviews with representatives of street blocks and public managers. The critical perspective of the analysis reveals that since the beginnings of this party, this collective effervescence presents traces of popular social insurgencies and attempts by the government to organize the party, a process similar to what currently happens with the party in the capital of Minas Gerais. However, this national festival is directly influenced by a cultural economic market that operates in and for the festival. The effort was to bring to light the relationships that were established between a carnival as a focus and engagement with political-social agendas, based on a market scenario. These tensions originated in the making and appropriation of carnival by society, in the struggles, claims and irreverence of social actors, pointing to the political-economic-social forces play between those who make the party (population), public administrators and the economic market.