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 ZA(c) 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.
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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 ZA(c) 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.
Imprint | The University of North Carolina Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | October 2001 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | October 2001 |
Authors | Christopher Dunn |
Dimensions | 235 x 156 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 276 |
Edition | New edition |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8078-4976-7 |
Barcode | 9780807849767 |
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LSN | 0-8078-4976-6 |