ABSTRACT
It should be noted at the outset that I don't intend to set the capitalist Babylon on fire, because the present moment is one of crisis and the contemporary flames affect our notions of time and space, and this cannot be solely attributed to the agents of reggae. At any rate, the Bahian reggae band Morrão Fumegante [Smoking Weed] set fire to the already hot Salvador summer of 1998 with its album Fogo na Babilonia [Fire in Babylon]. Despite these musical flames, the Bahian capital remains as it has always been. Reggae arrived, remained, and became Bahian.
