Punks e Sem-Terra: O MST em Canções Hardcore das Décadas de 1990 e 2000

This article investigates the ideological influence of the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) on certain Brazilian hardcore punk bands active in the 1990s and 2000s. By analyzing songs by Abuso Sonoro, Guerra de Classes, Point of No Return, and Dead Fish, it seeks to create theoretical and historical bridges between the social movement and the musical scene and to consider punk as a producer of social thought about and within Brazil. Moreover, the punk squats and MST assentamentos (settlements) are seen vis-à-vis, and the presence of MST political slogans in hardcore songs is discussed. This article proposes visualizing MST acampamentos (camps) as a Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ) as well. Finally, the issue of historical memory is examined, also bringing to the discussion the lyrics of a song by I Shot Cyrus and another one released in the 2010s by the thrash metal band Violator, broadening the horizon in terms of both timeframe and music style.