The saga and fate of the “peão de boiadeiro

the regionalism of Almir Sater dnd Renato Teixeira

Abstract

The long journeys driving the cattle along the roads, the bad weather and the stories of the trip, in addition to the community work of the entourage, made the saga and fate of the cattle ranch hand a cyclical theme of the asphalt country people in the last century, in the midst of which production by Almir Sater and Renato Teixeira stands out. The objective of this work is to analyze the representation of the cowboy cowboy in three songs composed by the duo - “Peão”, “Boiada” and “Tocando em frente” - guided mainly by the concepts of “narrator” (BENJAMIN, 2012), “romantic vision” (LÖWY; SAYRE, 2015) and “regionalism” (ROSA; NOGUEIRA, 2011). With the inherent disappearance of the profession in the face of modernity represented by trucks and road paving, the image of the cattle driver remains today as a myth of resistance to capitalist modernity. Sater and Teixeira bring in their work the displeasures of technological advancement to the lives of rural people and how dehumanization is inherent to this process. Based on the duo's production, we will develop the debate on regionalist poetics as a form of resistance to modernity, not as an unreflective past, but an unavoidable condition of contemporary times.