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History of Tropicalia (Tropicalismo)

Tropicalia movement of music started in the 1960's. It's founding events are located in 1967, even though the movement Tropicalismo first appeared in music in 1968. Tropicalism, which is the common term in the cultural industry and the media, is a point of cleavage. The term tropicalia (tropicalismo) has multiple connotations in that it played on images of Brazil being that of a "tropical paradise."  It encompasses art forms like that of theater, poetry, and music. This movement was seen as one that is avant-garde and popular, and also showed a fusion of traditional Brazilian culture with some foreign influences. Tropicalismo was presented as a "field for reflection on social history. This movement spurred musical controversies, creating paradigms of musicality and cultural critique." This is a movement that stirred controversy, and many of the activist sought to counter them. This was originally a collaborative project between Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, in which some of the key albums from the movements. The dominant principle of the movement was "antropofagia." This created a unique, and very influential movement, which transformed Brazil in its entirety.