Brutality Garden: Tropicalia and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (879 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807849766 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 276 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-28 |
| 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.. Christopher W. Chase said 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 "A very, very well-done interdisciplinary study" according to Christopher W. Chase. 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 20th century Brazil. Two elements em. 0th century Brazil. Two elements em. DJ Joe Sixpack said 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 with a relatively light, conversation
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. Recommend for serious large collections. . 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 l
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 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. 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.