title: Brutality Garden: Tropicalia and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture
author:  Christopher Dunn 
description: In 1968, young artists and poets in the Brazilian state of Bahia formed a movement that both mocked elite culture and depicted the brutal reality of the regime under which they were living. Tropic lia was thus born even though many of its creators (e.g., Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, and Tom Z ) were jailed or banished. In this reworking of his doctoral dissertation, Dunn (Spanish, Portuguese, and African and African Diaspora studies, Tulane Univ.) does a good job of minimizing postmodern terminology and maximizing delivery of the facts, clarifying the Tropic lists' goal of shattering Brazil's self-propagated image as a "garden." He reveals how the movement's vanguard introduced electric guitars and rock style into Brazilian popular music and explored African musical ideas; no one rhythm or sound can represent it. Though Tropic lia remained of local interest in its early days, its rediscovery via old recordings by David Byrne of Talking Heads in the late 1980s led to its wider dissemination. Recommend for serious large collections. Bonnie Jo Dopp, Univ. of Maryland Libs., College Park <br />Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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