Da curtição à sofrência: modernização agrícola e sertanejo universitário

Abstract

This master's thesis deals with an analysis of the representation of the sertanejo university songbook, aiming to investigate how their songs expressed socio-historical circumstances of the period in which they were produced, such as the process of agricultural modernization that started in the 20th century, the consolidation of agribusiness in the 21st century and the commodities boom. In order to reach this goal, we discuss, in chapter one, the constitution of the research field of Sociology of music, where our work is located. In chapter two, we discuss the process of agricultural modernization in the 20th and 21st centuries. In chapter three, we discussed the sertanejo genre, seeking to understand its history until the arrival of its university variation. And in chapter four, the central part of this work, we propose a debate on the period of the sertanejo university having as its central object the songbook and its correlation with the socio-historical context. Thus, in this last section, there is a sociological analysis of the songs from this period, based on the use of the method of musical decomposition.