Tropicália (Genre: A 33 1/3 Series)($19.95Value)

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This comprehensive portrait of Tropicá 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 Música popular brasileira (MPB) spoke to a multicultural yet oppressed nation, Tropicália 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in a crossover instigated by the progressive youth who refused to glorify a past it didn't identify with and whose outdated codes it didn't intend to perpetuate.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 Tropicália, 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: Tropicália 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. Tropicália propelled culture (and counterculture) forward, moving away from senseless niche intellectualisms in favour of a broader reach of Brazilian music. “By offering a clear and well-researched synthesis to audiences outside Brazil, Leorne expands the global conversation around Tropicália and reframes its historical context within a transnational perspective … the book delivers a solid interpretation of the movement, draws on extensive and varied scholarship, and reaffirms Tropicália's centrality as an aesthetic and political key to understanding Brazilian culture.” ― Popular Music History Ana Leorne is a writer, artist, musician and researcher based in Paris, France. She holds a BA in Fine Arts, an MA in Film Studies and a PhD in Visual Cultures. Formerly an associate editor at The 405 and digital media executive at MTV Portugal, her work has appeared in Bandcamp, Grammys, SFGate, SPIN, The Guardian and many others. She's also the author of This is the Strangest Life I've Ever Known: A Psychological Portrait of Jim Morrison (2023).