Rock rural: origens, estrada e destinos

Abstract

Is "rural rock" merely a label or can it be considered an accurate definition of the musical style of the trio Sá, Rodrix & Guarabyra, of the duo Sá & Guarabyra - formed after Rodrix split - and of their later followers? Is it an important niche in the process of popular music development or is it limited to what its creators have done? As it is not always rock and not always rural, where did rural rock come from and where is it going to? Is it commercially successful? Who listened to rural rock, who does it now and who will listen to it? Is it still played on radio? Why didn't rural rock manage to take up the space granted to "country" duos? Do media take rural rock seriously as it did with tropicalism? Is rural rock a sort of cultural anthropophagy similar to that of tropicalism or is if just an emulation of an alien culture? Why - and how - has rural rock lasted and supported its creators for almost forty years without ever been in the mass-media on a regular basis?