"Você mandou eu cantar, na mente que eu n？o sabia": estrutura？？o formal e camuflagem em um gênero musical camponês do médio Jequitinhonha

the paulista is an important musico-choreographic peasant genre from the mid jequitinhonha river (minas gerais, south-east of brazil). starting with a formal analysis of some of its technical parameters, this article seeks to explore mechanisms through which a musical and literary form can propose a coherent statement and at the same time difficult or restrict its apprehension. this "codification" is done here through processes of formal structuring on one hand, combined to a particular economy of any analytical or not-musical discourse about the musical practice, on the other hand. at last, a short comparison of cases claims to suggest such problem as a paradigm possibly relevant to other peasant contexts in brazil.