Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T17:56:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Lays_Matias_Mazoti.pdf: 1746780 bytes, checksum: 5c9a847a241c01fcd45771755d0e2ceb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-09-03 / The humorous representation of the Brazilian history could always be perceived in several artistic formats: images, movies, literary texts, theatrical pieces and also in the music. In the folk music, beyond the conception the act of telling jokes , it was assumed, sporadically, a character scenic, performative and grotesquely. Thinking on this question, I seek in this work to analyze the main humorous productions of the hillbilly duo partner, observing, especially, a articulation between comic features used - satire and parody - with the current issues in the social environment of the 1930s and 1940s. However, you must understand artistic production within the field of various socio-cultural transformations that prevailed at the time, once it was from these very changes that hillbilly music could find space to face the urban prejudice city through appropriation of this new representation of the hillbilly ensuring, this way, its own identity. / A representação humorística da história brasileira sempre pôde ser percebida em diversos formatos artísticos: imagens, filmes, textos literários, peças teatrais e também na música. Na música popular, ultrapassando a concepção do ato de se contar piadas , assumiu, por vezes, um caráter cênico, performático e caricatural. Pensando sobre essa questão, busco nesse trabalho analisar as principais produções humorísticas da dupla caipira Alvarenga e Ranchinho, atentando-se, sobretudo, a articulação entre os recursos cômicos utilizados sátira e paródia - com as questões vigentes no meio social das décadas de 1930 e 1940. Esses aspectos foram pensados a partir do campo das diversas transformações sócio-culturais que vigoravam naquele momento, uma vez que foi a partir dessas próprias mudanças que a música caipira pôde encontrar espaço para enfrentar os preconceitos citadinos - via apropriação humorística dessa nova representação do caipira garantindo, assim, sua própria identidade

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