Música e viola: interculturações brasileiras

Abstract

This work has as its main objective, to analyze historically the viola instrument as a representation of the Brazilian rustic culture that, through its players and manufacturers, survives and reinvents itself within the population and remains stronger than ever in the memory of Brazilians. Its presence is a remarkable fact of part of the population of Brazil, often used for a differential refinement when expressing the distinctive musical style, born of a popular culture and gaining the taste of Brazilians in new frontiers of music. The adopted methodology consisted of bibliographic and documentary research followed by documents, involving diverse sources such as newspapers, lyrics of the Brazilian rustic songbook, treating the object of the viola in the experiences of the historical subjects approached in the study. In addition, we worked with oral testimonials from some exponents of regional country music. At the end of the three chapters, the viola stands as the main instrument of musical representation of a part of the Brazilian population that keeps alive the flame of the redneck, the backwoods countryman long dormant, but present in the increasingly urbanized way of life. distant from the archaic life forms and sociability referenced in the songs.