Quanta gente se reúne para celebrar : Peña Eme-Ene – arte, memória e modos de pertencer da cultura sul-mato-grossense

Abstract

Peña Eme-Ene was a cultural space that operated for over a decade, between 1989 and 1999, emerging as a place for diverse artistic expressions, linked to the cultural identity of Mato Grosso do Sul. This article starts from the following question: how did Peña Eme-Ene operate as a space of cultural resistance and identity construction? The objective is to analyze the experience of Peña Eme-Ene as a cultural space that, through multiple artistic expressions, built integrations with South American countries and activated collective memories. Methodologically, this is a qualitative and documentary research, anchored in an interdisciplinary bibliographic review (in the fields of sociology, anthropology and history), based on the book “While this new train crosses the Central Coast: Urban popular music, Latin Americanism and conflicts over modernization in Mato Grosso do Sul”, by Álvaro Neder, articulated in other sources such as local press magazines – especially the magazines Cultura MS, Arca and Executivo Plus. The results reveal that Peña Eme-Ene was established as a microcosm of a Latin American culture, forging a territory of hybridisms, aesthetics and integration, where music operated as a vector of cultural identity and criticism of the cultural homogenization of the large centers.