tropicalismo

musical movement of the modern MPB that started in the late 1960s; some of its practitioners are Caetano Veloso (who sings the movement's anthem "Tropicalia") and Gilberto Gil. It consists of a mixture of regional music influenced by rock with deliberately obscure lyrics (but still iconoclastic) to get past the military censors. The movement ended in 1971 when Caetano and Gil were forced into exile in London.


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