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Tropicalia: Brazil's Rebel Sound
Tropicália challenges Brazil's 1968 dictatorship, as artists like Caetano Veloso and Os Mutantes fuse global sounds with cultural cannibalism into a provocative, uniquely Brazilian resistance.
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Mutants, Mayhem, and '68 Brazil
Brazil's 1968 Tropicália movement, with Os Mutantes' 'Panis et Circencis' as its manifesto, fuses psychedelic rock and local sounds to challenge military rule.
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Tropicalia: Art vs. Censors
Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil lead Tropicália's charge in late 1960s Brazil, fusing pop and traditional sounds to subvert the military dictatorship's censorship and defy arrest.
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