tropicália
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Tropicália (), also known as tropicalismo (), was a Brazilian art movement that arose in the late 1960s. It was characterized by the amalgamation of Brazilian genres—notably the union of the popular and the avant-garde, as well as the melding of Brazilian tradition and foreign traditions and styles. Contemporarily, tropicália became primarily associated with the musical faction of the movement, which merged Brazilian and African rhythms with British and American psychedelia and pop rock. The movement also included works of film, theatre, and poetry.
Key facts
- Music genre.name
- Tropicália
- Music genre.stylistic_origins
- Musical Art
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- Late 1960s, Southeastern Brazil
- Music genre.derivatives
- MPB, pós-tropicalismo
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Background
- Musical movement
- Critiques
- Influence
- Post Tropicália
- Seminal albums
- See also
- Further reading
- References
- External links
Tropicália (), also known as tropicalismo (), was a Brazilian art movement that arose in the late 1960s. It was characterized by the amalgamation of Brazilian genres—notably the union of the popular and the avant-garde, as well as the melding of Brazilian tradition and foreign traditions and styles. Contemporarily, tropicália became primarily associated with the musical faction of the movement, which merged Brazilian and African rhythms with British and American psychedelia and pop rock. The movement also included works of film, theatre, and poetry.
The term tropicália (tropicalismo) has multiple connotations in that it played on images of Brazil being that of a "tropical paradise". Tropicalia was presented as a "field for reflection on social history".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tropicália” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.