Do palco ao disco: música caipira e construção de identidades na cidade de São Paulo

The object of this article is the phonographic genre known as "musica caipira" (Brazilian country music) that emerged in 1929 with the first recordings of the musical group “Turma Caipira Cornelio Pires” produced by Columbia Records. Far from being an exclusive product of the phonographic industry, whose market was expanding thanks to the technical advances introduced by the electric recording, this genre also resulted from intense identity disputes that came to light in the musical theater of Sao Paulo. To support this idea, excerpts of theatrical texts, scores and phonograms from the 1910s to 1930s will be analyzed within the crossroads of Social History, Musicology, and Theater Studies.