The sound of brasilian ten strings guitar invoking a topophilic feeling hick

Abstract

It is customary for someone to hear the sound of a brazilian ten guitar playing and his imagination instantly relate to the field in his mind, especially for those who have some rural experience. And, not by chance, the place experienced by the caipira was always remembered with a certain affection in his songs. In order to try to understand this appreciation of the caipira cancioneiro by its backlands, we will use tools based on a geographic perspective to analyze this affection of the caipira by its place, that feeling is denominated by Tuan (1980) like topophilia. Even among those urban characters who, in one way or another, were enchanted by the sound of the brazilian ten guitar and took the instrument as a flag, the feeling of these violeiros can be perceived in their life and work, in the varied narratives accompanied to the sound of the brazilian ten guitar.