Jack A. Draper III earned his Ph.D. in Literature at Duke University. Dr. Draper has published an array of scholarly articles and chapters relating to Brazilian popular music, literature and cinema. He continues his work in the field of Brazilian Cultural Studies in his current position of Assistant Professor of Portuguese at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
«This book presents a coherent, well-researched, and highly
insightful analysis of ‘forró.’ Jack A. Draper’s exploration of the
workings of saudade in the genre, his analysis of forró’s
relationship to patterns of migration and assimilation, and his
critical division of the current field of forró into three distinct
styles are excellent. As Draper notes, forró has received less
scholarly attention than other Brazilian genres of similar
popularity and substance. It is a major cultural phenomenon whose
growth and recombination over the past seventy years present
fascinating cases of cultural vitality and variation, and it amply
deserves the close critical attention it gets here.» (Bryan McCann,
Georgetown University, Author of ‘Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular
Music in the Making of Modern Brazil’)
«In this book, Jack A. Draper very accurately analyzes the
trajectory of the musical genre known as ‘forró’, examining this
music as one of the elements of cultural expression of the people
of Brazil’s Northeastern region. It is a historiographical analysis
that delves into the fields of sociology and anthropology, not
forgetting references from the regional literature. Draper
interprets signifiers and signifieds contained in the song lyrics,
exploring scenarios which present the life and way of being of the
artists, of the Northeastern poets that reside in the region and of
those who migrated to the great cities and have in forró their
greatest reference of sociocultural identity. It is a work that
deals with popular musicality from the standpoint of a researcher
who left behind his habitat – the United States – to go to the
field. In Brazil he experienced and witnessed Northeastern customs,
habits, and traditions, but it is his object of study forró that
consolidates this work.» (Expedito Leandro Silva, University of
Santo Amaro, Brazil, Author of ‘Forró no asfalto: mercado e
identidade sociocultural’)
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