Tropicalia
Author: Leorne, Ana
ISBN: 9798765119068
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 08 May 2025
Pages: 176 Format: Paperback / softback
This comprehensive portrait of Tropic ilia, 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 ilia 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in a crossover instigated by the progressive youth who refused to glorify a past it didn't identify with and whose outdated codes it didn't intend to perpetuate.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 ilia, 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 ilia 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 ilia propelled culture (and counterculture) forward, moving away from senseless niche intellectualisms in favour of a broader reach of Brazilian music.
ISBN: 9798765119068
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 08 May 2025
Pages: 176 Format: Paperback / softback
This comprehensive portrait of Tropic ilia, 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 ilia 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in a crossover instigated by the progressive youth who refused to glorify a past it didn't identify with and whose outdated codes it didn't intend to perpetuate.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 ilia, 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 ilia 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 ilia propelled culture (and counterculture) forward, moving away from senseless niche intellectualisms in favour of a broader reach of Brazilian music.
