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Brazilian Minister of (Counter) Culture: Gilberto Gil

by Evelyn McDonnell [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[11.Apr.07] :. Tropicalia fused nationalistic interest in native cultural forms with the heady changes of international pop culture -- it mixed samba and rock. As Gil said recently, it was "the last modernist movement and the first postmodernist one."

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Column: South Meridian

Tropicália: Brazil’s Musical Revolution Turns 40

by Marcelo Ballvé

[2.Feb.07] :. Tropicália would combine the cosmopolitan sensibilities and lyrical precision of rock with the entire geological depth of Brazil's considerable musical tradition.

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