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| Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jack A Draper, III |
| ISBN: | 9781433110764 1433110768 |
| OCLC Number: | 643568832 |
| Description: | ix, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | From symbol to allegory : Forró embraces the Northeast's heterogeneity -- Saudade as diasporic affect : forró and Northeastern nostalgia -- The rural-urban negative dialectic : cognitive mapping and forró -- Framing forró's perceptiveness : migration contextualized -- The synthetic urge : Brazilian narratives of national development and dependency in global cultural studies -- The synthetic urge and forró : against hybrid totalization -- The "changing same" and redemptive regionalism in the evolving popular musical form of forró. |
| Series Title: | Latin America (Peter Lang Publishing), v. 18. |
| Responsibility: | Jack A. Draper III. |
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Publisher Synopsis
"This book presents a coherent, well-researched, and highly insightful analysis of `forro.' Jack A. Draper's exploration of the workings of saudade in the genre, his analysis of forro's relationship to patterns of migration and assimilation, and his critical division of the current field of forro into three distinct styles are excellent. As Draper notes, forro 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 `forro', 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 forro 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 forro that consolidates this work." (Expedito Leandro Silva, University of Santo Amaro, Brazil, Author of `Forro no asfalto: mercado e identidade sociocultural') Read more...

