Jackson do Pandeiro Jackson do Pandeiro José Gomes Filho (August 31, 1919 – July 10, 1982), more commonly known as Jackson do Pandeiro (), was a Brazilian percussionist and singer. Jackson was born in Paraíba, Brazil, a region in the northeast of the country. His mother, Flora Mourão, was a musician and singer who played several percussion instruments. As a child he had originally wanted to play the accordion, but his parents could not afford it and bought him a pandeiro, a type of tambourine, in its place. He began playing music with the zabumba, however, in order to assist his mother in
Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil McCann makes note of the potential critiques about his research in the introduction about this research. The reader will note that McCann's analysis concentrates overwhelmingly on the music produced in Rio de Janeiro and not in other cities in Brazil. This is where he is able to discuss audience interpretation, and the primary audience is the metropolitan Brazilian. This is unavoidable: through the period, Rio was the bureaucratic and cultural capital of the nation, home to the principal recording studios and the most powerful radio stations. Review by Frederick Moehn in the "Latin American Music Review" 28 (2007): 309-315. Review