Tropicália: que barulho é esse? – um debate sobre a cultura brasileira

Abstract

This work is part of the line of research “Culture, Social Relations and Gender”, as it seeks to understand the symbolic meanings produced by the Tropicalista movement between 1967 and 1969 through the analysis of the lyrics of the songs performed by the group of Brazilian artists who identified themselves through this movement. To the extent that Cultural History contemplates such analysis, my purpose is to carry out a productive approach to the song document. The great challenge of the entire project is to map the layers of meaning embedded in a musical work. To this end, I use as a source for this work the albums “Caetano Veloso 1968”, “Gilberto Gil 1968” and “Tropicália ou panis et ciercenses”, the latter considered the manifesto album of the Tropicalista Movement and which was produced by several artists who identified themselves as with the movement in 1968. The objective of this work is to analyze how the Tropicalista Movement thinks about Brazil through its songs.