Brutality Garden: Tropicalia and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (668 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807849766 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 276 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Wonderful text for Tropicalia. V helpful. Mined the hell out of it. Obrigado" according to Heath Hampton. Extremely helpful in research concerning Tropicalia and its relationship to revolutionary behavior in the lusophone world.. A very, very well-done interdisciplinary study Prof. Christopher Dunn has written an impressive book about music and its role in the history and development of Brazilian Counterculture. "Brutality Garden: Tropicalia and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture" begins by covering the history of Brazilian intellectual modernism (modernismo), focusing on the contributions of Oswald de Andrade and Mario de Andrade, as well as the early development of a progressive political impulse in early to mid . An indispensable overview of Brazilian pyschedelia An outstanding history of the late -1960s surrealist-hippie rock movement known as "tropicalia." Although tons has already been written about Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and the other heroes of the tropicalia scene in the Brazilian press and academia, it's been pretty slim pickings in the English-speaking world up until now, that is! Christopher Dunn, who co-edited "Brazilian Popular Music & Globalization," skillfully combines hard academic research w
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.. In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicalia. 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. Music inspired by that move
of Maryland Libs., College Park Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. Tropic lia was thus born even though many of its creators (e.g., Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, and Tom Z ) were jailed or banished. Though Tropic lia remained of local interest in its early days, its rediscovery via old recordings by David Byrne of Talking Heads in the late 1980s led to its wider dissemination. In this reworking of his doctoral dissertation, Dunn (Spanish, Portuguese, and African and African Diaspora studies, Tulane Univ.) does a good job of minimizing postmodern terminology and maximizing delivery of the facts, clarifying the Tropic lists' goal of shattering Brazil's self-pr