Três trópicos da tropicália

a cultural revolution

I want to speak a little of the cultural revolution created by Tropicalism, which called into question a whole string of values and ways of making money. For example, in Rio you could find people enjoying jazz and samba from the favelas, a coterie which enjoyed the music of the blacks, but kept them at a safe distance. The Bahians then started to come out of the kitchen and invade the reception room. They began to provide equipment which until then was not available to popular art. The intellectuals, the theoreticians appeared. So that threatened to divide intellectual work. One of the more significant meanings of the Tropicalist cultural revolution was this taking by assault of all media and the de-compartmentalization of these media.