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Música sertaneja and migrant identity: the stylistic development of a Brazilian genre

1992; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 11; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0261143000005183

1474-0095

Suzel Ana Reily,

Urban and sociocultural dynamics

Música sertaneja could be considered the Brazilian counterpart to American ‘country’ music. What defines the genre is not its rhythmic patterns, which vary considerably, but a performance style involving duplas (duos) singing in parallel thirds to the accompaniment of a guitar and a viola . Having developed out of southeastern traditional genres, it is the popular musical style that most appeals to migrants from these regions now living in the industrial centres of Greater São Paulo. Although today música sertaneja is primarily an urban phenomenon, the style also reaches audiences throughout the rural areas of central and southeastern Brazil.