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A sparkling and eye-opening account

Tropicalia Mothers Day and it is not menThis comprehensive portrait of Tropiclia, exploring everything from influences and results to context and main players, demonstrates how the genre helped reinvent Brazil's cultural identity in a post colonial world. While bossa nova nurtured a snobbish audience rooted in jazz and Msica popular brasileira (MPB) spoke to a multicultural yet oppressed nation, Tropiclia invested in a crossover instigated by the progressive youth who refused to glorify a