Brutality Garden
Tropic
Christopher Dunn
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 01/2014
Pages: 276
Subject: Music, Social Science, History
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469615707
DESCRIPTION
Focusing on a group of musicians from Bahia, an impoverished state in northeastern Brazil noted for its vibrant Afro-Brazilian culture, Christopher Dunn reveals how artists including Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, and Tom Ze created this movement together with the musical and poetic vanguards of Sao Paulo, Brazil's most modern and industrialized city. He shows how the tropicalists selectively appropriated and parodied cultural practices from Brazil and abroad in order to expose the fissure between their nation's idealized image as a peaceful tropical "garden" and the daily brutality visited upon its citizens.