TROPICALIA AOU PANIS ET CIRCENCIS  
PHILIPS 1968
ORIGINAL LP

   TROPICALIA

STEREO PHILPS  33rpm
R765.040 MADE IN BRAZIL

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COVER: VG+
RECORD: VG++



Tropicália, also known as Tropicalismo, is a Brazilian artistic movement that arose in the late 1960s. It encompassed art forms such as theatre, poetry, and music. The movement was characterized by a combination of the popular and the avant-garde, as well as a fusion of traditional Brazilian culture with foreign influences.

Today, Tropicália is chiefly associated with the musical faction of the movement, which merged  and  with . Musicians who were part of the movement include , , , , , and the poet/lyricist , all of whom participated in the 1968 album, which served as a musical manifesto.

A dominant principle of Tropicália was , a type of cultural cannibalism that encouraged the conflation of disparate influences, out of which could be created something unique. The idea was originally put forth by poet  in his , published in 1928, and was developed further by the tropicalistas in the 1960s.

The 1968 album  is regarded as the musical manifesto of the Tropicália movement. Although it was a collaborative project, the main creative forces behind the album were  and . The album experimented with unusual time signatures and unorthodox song structures, and also mixed tradition with innovation. Politically, the album expressed criticism of the .

In 1969, Veloso and Gil were arrested and imprisoned by the military government over the political content of their work. After two months, the two were released and subsequently forced to seek exile in , where they lived and resumed their musical careers until they were able to return to Brazil in 1972. Others in the Tropicalismo movement were less fortunate; several underwent torture or were forced into "psychiatric care". One tropicalista, the lyricist and poet , committed suicide after such treatment.

In 1993, Veloso and Gil released the album , celebrating 25 years of the movement and commemorating their earlier musical experiments.

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