The scholarization process of the viola caipira: new players (inventing) trend and identities

Author(s)

Saulo Sandro Alves Dias

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Educação (FE/SBD)
• Defense date: 2010-04-09

Examining board members

Valdir Heitor Barzotto; Claudemir Belintane; Maurilane de Souza Biccas; Sônia Tereza da Silva Ribeiro; José Roberto Zan

• Advisor: Valdir Heitor Barzotto

Abstract

This work studies the scholarization process of the viola caipira. Considering that this is a process, which is being constituted on the centre-south area of Brazil in the last decades; the dimensions and implications of the process regarding the instrument, as well as its relation to the players and the identitarian representations formed throughout the 20th century are analyzed. The theory to be developed claims that the formalization of musical practices and the systematisation of the instruments techniques of execution, along with several consecration instances, have contributed to forge the cultural identities of both, viola caipira and player. In that sense, it is asserted that, in the field of culture-provider institutions and scholar institutions, it is being generated what can be considered the modern technique of the viola caipira. On the other hand, it is shown that the process mentioned has occurred as a result of the socio-cultural actions of the new players, whose theoretical-musical formation is systematized inside or outside the academy, through hybrid processes that involve, especially, the technique of the viola caipira from oral tradition, and techniques of other instruments. (AU)