From Caipira Music to University Country Music

A Climbing of Cultural (De)Formation

Abstract

This qualitative bibliographic research aimed at comparatively analysing, based on the Frankfurtian Critical Theory, from the perspective of Theodor Adorno, two different musical genres: caipira music and university backcountry. Such genres were analysed based on the discussion proposed by Adorno and Simpson regarding popular music, taking advantage of the categories presented by both, such as standardization, pseudo-individuation, presentation of the material and children's speech. The objective was to demonstrate the (de) formative potential of each of these genres and to highlight which one has a greater possibility of contributing to the process of human formation and also to understand the level of influence of the Cultural Industry in each one of them. At the end of the analysis, it was possible to conclude that the two genres in question have a strong influence from the Cultural Industry and because of that, the potential for human deformation in both is quite apparent, although there is a slightly greater contribution to human formation in caipira music than in the university country music.