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Christopher Dunn’s history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that developed alongside the ascent of hardline forces within the regime in the late 1960s. Focusing on urban, middle-class Brazilians often inspired by the international counterculture that flourished in the United States and parts of western Europe, Dunn shows how new understandings of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship erupted under even the most oppressive political conditions. Dunn reveals previously ignored connections between the counterculture and Brazilian music, literature, film, visual arts, and alternative journalism. In chronicling desbunde, the Brazilian hippie movement, he shows how the state of Bahia, renowned for its Afro-Brazilian culture, emerged as a countercultural mecca for youth in search of spiritual alternatives. As this critical and expansive book demonstrates, many of the country’s social and justice movements have their origins in the countercultural attitudes, practices, and sensibilities that flourished during the military dictatorship.
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Keywords
- Alternative Press in Brazil
- André Luiz Oliveira
- Avant-garde and counterculture
- Black movement in Brazil
- Brazilian masculinity
- Brazilian popular music
- Caetano Veloso
- Candomblé in Brazilian popular music
- Counterculture in Brazil
- Counterculture in Latin America
- Culture and Politics in Authoritarian Brazil
- Desbunde
- Dom Filó
- Gal Costa
- Gay movement in Brazil
- Gerson King Combo
- Gilberto Gil
- Hélio Oiticica
- Hippie movement in Brazil
- Hippie village in Arembepe, Brazil
- Jorge Ben
- Lélia Gonzalez
- Lygia Clark
- Neoconcretism
- Novos Baianos
- Raul Seixas
- Salvador, Bahia as destination for alternative tourists
- Soul music in Brazil
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
- Tim Maia
- Torquato Neto
- Tropicália
- Waly Salomão
- Youth culture of Rio de Janeiro
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DOI: 10.5149/9781469628523_DunnEditions