Leisure and entertainment industry in a little rural city of Minas Gerais

Abstract

The historical development of a capitalist economy and their sub-products, such as modern leisure are usually associated with urbanization and industrialization. However, these factors do not seem to have been necessary conditions for modernizing changes everywhere. Rural regions also could to be inserted in these processes, where the development of rural sectors seems to have been facilitated the historical emergence of an entertainment market. Analyzing Oliveira, a little city in Minas Gerais state, Brazil, the article looks for the historical development of the entertainment market in a rural region.