Recruiting rockers: Music Festivals Mediation as a means to spreading the rock culture in Angolan society

Abstract

The paper addresses how free rock festivals, Rock Lalimwe Eteke Ifa (ORLEI) and Rock no Rio Catumbela, held in the cities of Huambo and Catumbela, in Angola, are one of the main forms of circulation, consumption and contact of local residents with the rock music genre in this period of economic, political and social development established with
the end of the war in April 04, 2002. This ethnography discusses how Angolan rock festivals act as facilitators of the contact of the local public with the culture of the music genre, in which live performances of the Angolan rock movement present their technical conventions, behaviors and costumes in these entertainment spaces