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Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

Door Christopher Dunn

Categorie
Algemeen Muziek
Boeknummer
#388744-UI1
Titel
Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture
Auteur
Dunn, Christopher
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : University of North Caroline Press Books
Jaar van uitgave
2001
ISBN10
0807849766
ISBN13
9780807849767
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, numerous illustrations (including photographs) in colour and b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropic¡lia. 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, Tropic¡lia 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 incl... (Lees verder)uding Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Tom Z© 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.
Pagina's
256
Conditie
Goed — Stamp on title page.
Prijs
€ 20,00

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