Cantando a própria história / Not informed by the author
AUTOR(ES)
Ivan Vilela
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2011
RESUMO
This work intends to perform a reading of caipira music, its components and its main representative: the brazilian ten-string guitar, here approached from the standpoint of its social and musical history. In this consideration we will question some concepts, which have already been developed by other writers, on country music and its relationship to the phonographic market. For this, our eyes will be addressed to the peasant of Central-southeastern Brazil - the caipira, the way it was understood in the eyes of urbanity and the intense migratory process to Sao Paulo city and surroundings in the early twentieth century and in the 1970s. Upon leaving their places of origin, these migrants have entered a process of loss of roots, which we call uprooting. For a variety of reasons discussed here, these people were composing the suburbs of large cities and their culture was being treated as something smaller, non canonical. One aspect of peasant culture is its music expression, which had as poematic base romance, the story telling. In these musical narratives, always connected to the orality world, they recorded phonographically their saga and passed on their values of life. Through the radio waves the caipira history became known to all - a rare event in a country where only the winners history is told. The broadcasting of caipira music served as a factor re-rooting on migrants retaining their values and preserving their history. In order to confirm these ideas, we conducted interviews with migrants in order to collect their impressions about the loss and acquisition of new values
ASSUNTO(S)
country music cultura popular desenraizamento social folk culture história social memória verbal música caipira social history social uprooting verbal memory
