Counterculture and transgression: an analysis of the album "tropicalia ou panis et circencis" (1968)
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https://doi.org/10.22264/clio.issn2525-5649.2018.36.1.13Keywords:
Tropicália, Counterculture, Resistance music, Military dictatorshipAbstract
Tropicalismo movement is a significant example of the cultural manifestations that characterized the 1960s in Brazil. The mutual influence approached musicians who felt challenged by the cultural critique at that time. The present article tries to show “Tropicália” as a counterculture movement that aimed to highlight certain conservative practices and customs of Brazilian society, as well as to transgress them. The criticism proposed in the songs goes beyond that one addressed against the repressive forces that composed the military state, and it includes conservative positions in the musical, aesthetic, behavioral and sexual aspects. Released in 1968, the collective “manifest álbum” “Tropicália or panis et circencis” represents a new moment in Brazilian music: the explicit opening to cultural dialogues. The study of some of the songs from this manifest-album is the proposal of this present study.
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