Tropicália

By: Leorne, Ana

This comprehensive portrait of Tropic lia, exploring everything from influences and results to context and main players, demonstrates how the genre helped reinvent Brazil's cultural identity in a post-colonial world.

While bossa nova nurtured a snobbish audience rooted in jazz and M sica popular brasileira (MPB) spoke to a multicultural yet oppressed nation, Tropic lia invested in a crossover instigated by the progressive youth who refused to glorify a past it didn't identify with and whose outdated codes it didn't intend to perpetuate. This portrait of Tropic lia, exploring everything from influences and results to context and main players, shows how the genre helped reinvent Brazil's cultural identity in a postcolonial world.

The genre's core comes from a unique mix of native and foreign influences: Tropic lia doesn't reject the international pop panorama but is an undeniable product of it. The book sets the strangling military dictatorship and its resulting censorship serving as the sociopolitical backdrop of the genre. Tropic lia propelled culture (and counterculture) forward, moving away from senseless niche intellectualisms in favour of a broader reach of Brazilian music.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D8H4XWWS
• ISBN13: 9798765119068
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.7"