![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tropicalismo as such only lasted for a few months, but the ideas which it promoted profoundly marked contemporary Brazilian culture. As a result of its history it comes under the sign of the Cannibalism, (1) the metaphor invented by modernist writers in the 1920s to refer to the `ritual devouring' by which Brazil assimilated foreign values and made them its own.Ĭaetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil readily used the concept of Cannibalism at the end of the 1960s, when they founded Tropicalismo, which claimed a mixture of genres, styles and arts as its basis, and married international pop music and Brazilian traditions, electric guitars and berimbau. It could almost be said that it is born a cross-breed, given the half-European, half-African origins of its best-known first genres, lundu, choro and maxixe. Like many sociocultural phenomena in Brazil popular music, as everyone knows, is the result of a meeting of influences. ![]()
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