tropicalismo
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- noun
- /trɒpɪkəˈlɪzmoʊ/
- Cut-and-dried lines between "national" and "alienated" music were blurred by Tropicalismo, a brief movement with enduring effects.
- heir to tropicalismo
- Tropicalismo in the canon
- Brazilian tropicalismo
Examples
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At that time, Tropicalismo rejected the musical purism of protest music and adopted the television spectacle as its medium.
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Musicians who embraced Tropicalismo transformed Brazilian music by incorporating international styles and sounds.
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As identity discourse, Tropicalismo has been used as a kind of stable reference for understanding the present.
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Caetano's book is intended to secure the place of Tropicalismo in Brazilian culture.
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Tropicalismo captured a band of followers in a generation that now wonders, "Who are we now?"
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From the perspective of the present, Vasconcellos seems to think that Tropicalismo is part of what has gone wrong in Brazil.
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The last point is essential: Tropicalismo's place in the canon is now guaranteed by its wide audience.
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For the book's detractors, what is at stake is how Tropicalismo may be a signpost to what went wrong.
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Who, then, are Tropicalismo's legitimate heirs today?
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Inevitably, consensus has both caused and had the effect of blunting the critical edge of Tropicalismo's views on contemporary cultural politics.
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Synonyms
An artistic movement in Brazil in the late 1960s mixing local and international styles
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tropicalismo comes from tropical ('of the tropics') and the ending -ismo (like the English '-ism', which names a movement or style). It was used in Brazil for a 1960s art and music movement that mixed local tropical culture with modern international ideas, so the name points to a 'tropical' artistic style.