Paper short abstract:

Within a few decades in the 20th century Brazil went from being a country with the majority of its population living in rural area to be a predominantly urban country.

Paper long abstract:

Based in this historical fact of national scenario transformation, we conducted a research to analyze this phenomenon and the consequent process of countryman integration in the urban environment through the songs of that time.

This analysis - that we have been performing in the sociology doctorate program in the Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar) - is concerned with a typical music genre of the Brazilian southwest region: "moda de viola" which integrates, together with other genre and beats, the "caipira music".

Due to the defining characteristic of narrating events in the countryman´s reality, now migrant, the "moda de viola" is a vantage point to analyze and comprehension of dilemmas and tensions in the integration process which reflections aided to define the national capitalism characteristics.