Tropiclia

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This comprehensive portrait of Tropiclia, from influences to results, from context to main players, and everything in between also explores how Tropiclia helped reinvent Brazil's cultural identity in a post-colonial world. The genre's conceptual core comes from a unique mix of native and foreign influences: Tropiclia doesn't repudiate the international pop panorama, but instead aligns with the era by assuming itself as its undeniable product. The book discusses the strangling military dictatorship and its resulting censorship serving as the sociopolitical backdrop, and Tropiclia's incisive criticism of imperialism through symbolism and allegory. It also reveals an enthusiastic desire for propelling culture (and counterculture in particular) forward, repudiating senseless conservatisms and niche intellectualisms in favour of a broader reach of Brazilian music. While Bossa Nova nurtured a snobbish audience rooted in jazz and MPB spoke to a multicultural yet oppressed nation, Tropiclia invested in a crossover instigated by the progressive youth who refused to glorify a past it didn't identify with and whose outdated codes it didn't intend to perpetuate.

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Ana Leorne is an artist, writer, and researcher and was previously an associate editor at The 405 and digital media executive at MTV Portugal. Her writing has appeared on Bandcamp, Elegy Iberica, Recording Academy/The Grammys, SFGate, Pblico, Beats Per Minute, SPIN, The Guardian, and many others. She currently lives in Paris.