The BRAZILIAN COUNTRY MUSIC AS A REFLECTION OG CHANGES IN LISTENING PLACE

Abstract

This article aims to analyze and compare Brazilian country music from different decades in order to identify which elements have been preserved, which have changed over time and the possible associations between these transformations and the increase in the urban population. For this, two country songs were selected, one from 1926 and the other from 2028, in order to identify which musical elements have been transformed and which have been preserved over the time and under the influence of the rural exodus process. Through bibliographic research, we found that our country has undergone  through a significant urbanization, especially since the 1960s and this fact, aggravated by the influence of the cultural industry, caused changes in habits, actions and, consequently, caused changes in people's listening places; the wiretaps that were made and produced in the rural environment differ in many of the wiretaps that are made and produced in urban environments today. Such changes directly imply people's form of expression and artistic production. Through analytical research of the narrative and musical elements, this transformation of the listening places is evident, and demonstrates the culture, practices and concepts of two very diverse  contexts (rural and urban). Listening places are produced by living beings and, in reciprocity, also produces them as beings; in this way, it becomes an important research object for the understanding of society today.