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Tropicália was a musical and cultural movement in Brazil that lasted little more than a year (1968) and ended primarily due to the imprisonment and subsequent deportation to England of the two main protagonists, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. Nevertheless, it had, and continues to have, a profound effect on the music of Brazil to this day. As a movement it not only informed music but also visual art, cinema, theatre and literature.
tropicália mixed American and British psychedelic rock and pop with Brazilian roots and European avantgarde and experimental music to create a new sound that was both distinctly Brazilian and truly international. Ideologically they mixed high art with mass culture and mocked both the military dictatorship under which they were living as much as the militant left-wing artists who wanted to bring them down. This is to say they loved the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix as much as they were against American Imperialism.
Tropicália created musical and cultural anarchy under a military dictatorship and ultimately paid the price. And they created a Brazilian revolution in sound....
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The main artists involved in Tropicália were caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé and Os Mutantes. A much wider group of people integral to Tropicália include poets
José Capinan Torquato Neto, Augusto and Haraldo de Campos, arranger
Rogério Duprat, philosopher/ writer Zé Aggripino, writer/ graphic design artist Rogério Duarte, film-maker Glauber Rocha, the visual artist Hélio Oiticica, impresario Guilherme Araújo and theatre director José Celso. Other related artists who were open to Tropicália but pursued somewhat seperate musical paths include Maria Bethânia, and Bossa Nova stars Nãra Leao and Jorge Ben.
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