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Author Dunn, Christopher, 1964-

Title Brutality garden : Tropicália and the emergence of a Brazilian counterculture / Christopher Dunn
Published Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, [2001]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) : illustrations
Contents Poetry for export : modernity, nationality, and internationalism in Brazilian culture -- Participation, pop music, and the universal sound -- The Tropicalist moment -- In the adverse hour : Tropicalia performed and proscribed -- Tropicalia, counterculture, and Afro-diasporic connections -- Traces of Tropicalia
Summary In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicália. Music inspired by that movement is today enjoying considerable attention at home and abroad. Few new listeners, however, make the connection between this music and the circumstances surrounding its creation, the most violent and repressive days of the military regime that governed Brazil from 1964 to 1985. With key manifestations in theater, cinema, visual arts, literature, and especially popular music, Tropicália dynamically articulated the conflicts and aspirations of a generation of young, urban Brazilians. Focusing on a group of musicians from Bahia, an impoverished state in northeastern Brazil noted for its vibrant Afro-Brazilian culture, Christopher Dunn reveals how artists including Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Tom Zé created this movement together with the musical and poetic vanguards of Sao Paulo, Brazil's most modern and industrialized city. He shows how the tropicalists selectively appropriated and parodied cultural practices from Brazil and abroad in order to expose the fissure between their nation's idealized image as a peaceful tropical "garden" and the daily brutality visited upon its citizens.--Publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245), discography (pages 247-248) , and index
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Subject Tropicália (Music) -- History and criticism
Popular music -- Brazil -- History and criticism
Counterculture -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Counterculture
Popular music
Tropicália (Music)
Tropicalismo
Brazil
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
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