Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian

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Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicalia. 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, Tropicalia 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 Ze 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.

Country	USA
Author	Christopher Dunn
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	New edition
EISBN	9781469615707
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	The University of North Carolina Press
Manufacturer	The University of North Carolina Press
NumberOfPages	276
PublicationDate	2014-01-01
Publisher	The University of North Carolina Press
ReleaseDate	2014-01-01
Studio	The University of North Carolina Press

Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

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