O poema narrativo na canção caipira

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation went study to country music, demonstrating that, to example of the epic poem, of the ballad and of the medieval ballads, it is a cultural manifestation founded in the old tradition of the oral literature and that, in spite of being considered by some researchers as influence of the European tradition, it is a singular manifestation, typically Brazilian, the one which, to example of the Brazilian line, he/she knew how to transform the tradition introduced by the settlers to the way of life of the country: its space, its dreams and ideals, its values, faiths and legends. For so much, three songs are analyzed, Jorginho do Sertão (1926), of Cornélio Pires; Chico Mulato (1932), of Raul Torres and João Pacífico and Chico Mineiro (1943), of Francisco Ribeiro and Tonico. The analyses demonstrated, besides the country singer's singularity, the preponderance of the narrative in relation to the lyricism.