supostamente moderno de comemoracao no reino dafolia. Contudo, os grupos populares se mantem ativos nas decadas em questao,dividindo o espaco da festa carnavalesca com as elites locais. A partir dajustaposicao das fontes e uma minuciosa leitura critica, foi possivel vislumbrar asnuances do movimento festivo que sao expostos ao longo desse trabalho. Assim,alcancamos nosso objetivo de compreender as relacoes que se estabelecem entreas festas carnavalescas, a cidade e o ideal de modernidade. Os jornais O Paladio eO Detetive compoem o acervo de pesquisa e possibilitam ao estudo, compreender adinamica da festa e o controle que as elites tentavam exercer nesse espaco. Aestas, contrapomos as fontes orais que lancam a reflexao outros sentidos de festejara micareta e o carnaval no periodo estudado. Soma-se a essas fontes, imagens quefomentam a analise das relacoes entre as festas e a cidade. Esses indicios noslevam a concluir que as representacoes da modernidade projetam sobre a cidadereal, uma cidade imaginada. Da mesma forma, sobre as festas reais sao projetadasfestas imaginarias, ideais e condizentes com as imagens de modernizacaopropagadas pelas elites. Esse universo festivo, marcado pelo movimento dos gruposcarnavalescos e pelas ideias e representacoes da modernidade, e o objeto deestudo dessa pesquisa.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: festa; micareta; carnaval; modernizacao; Santo Antonio deJesus, BA. 7ABSTRACTThis paper is a historiographic discussion about the popular festivities micareta andcarnival in Santo Antonio de Jesus in the 30s and 40s of 20th century. In thisperiod, the city was passing through urban transformations provoked by the modernideas introduced in the city space through the local elites. There was a simplemodernization of the urban structure, but the discourse which disseminated the ideasof modernity left its mark on the city and the carnival party space. About the micareta,with its ropes, pranchas, floats, beats and Ze-pereiras, arise the longing ofmodernization of local elites who tried to establish a model allegedly modern ofcelebration in the revelry kingdom. However, the popular groups stayed alive in thedecades in question, separating the carnival party space with the local elites. Afterthe juxtaposition of sources and a meticulous critical reading, it was possible glimmerthe nuances of the festival that are exposed in this paper. So, the aims of understandthe relations establish between the carnival parties, the city and the modernity idealwere reached. The news papers O Paladio and O Detetive compose the search andenable to the study, the comprehension of the party dynamics and the control thatthe elites tried to exert on the space. We confront these sources to the oral oneswhich reflect different ways to celebrate the micareta and carnival in the periodstudied. In addition to these sources, pictures that stimulate the analysis of therelation between the festivities and the city were added. These evidences lead to theconclusion that the modernity representations exert a pictured city on the real city.Likewise, over the real parties, pictured parties are projected, ideal and befitted to thepictures of modernization propagated by the elites. This festive universe, marked bythe carnival groups movement and the ideas and representation of modernity, is theobject of this research.KEYWORDS: party; micareta; carnival; modernization; Santo Antonio de Jesus, BA. 8LISTA DE ILUSTRACOESFigura 01 Chegada do trem em Santo