Brutality Garden: Tropicalia and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture

by Christopher Dunn

Book Overview

In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropicalia. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807849766
• ISBN13: 9780807849767
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"