MANGUEBEAT by Ayodê França

Ayodê França is from Pernambuco, Brasil.

Ayodê França is a talented black artist, illustrator, filmmaker, and animator born in 1984 in Pernambuco, Brazil. His work can be described as a poetic investigation of the visual language of local popular culture, the archetypes of African matrix religions, and scenes of everyday urban life on the periphery of global capitalism. He mainly focuses on the forms and possibilities of transit of the black body within these realities.

Connect with Ayodê França at @ayode_franca

The manguebeat movement is a cultural movement created circa 1991 in Recife in Northeast Brazil in reaction to the cultural and economic stagnation of the city. The movement primarily focuses on music, but it has its own fashion and slang and encompasses aspects of visual art. It mixes regional rhythms of the Brazilian Northeast, such as maracatu, frevo, coco, and forró, with rock, soul, raggamuffin, hip hop, funk, and electronic music.

Literally, manguebeat or mangue bit means "the rhythm (beat) of the mangues"; mangue is the Portuguese word for mangrove, a kind of eco-system that exists all along the coast of Pernambuco. The founders of the manguebeat movement were proud of their origins and used the mangue to symbolize the rhythm; mangroves are the natural habitat of crabs, hence the frequent reference to them among the manguebeat groups.

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