Psychedelic Territories: Exile and Sonorities in Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil
Luiza Bittencourt, Rafael Lage
Rock Music Studies September 2, 2018 DOI: 10.1080/19401159.2018.1510755 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Historical analysis Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that Caetano Veloso's and Gilberto Gil's early-1970s London exile recordings both continue the tropicalist principles of cultural anthropophagy and Brazilian counterculture ideas and express, through lyrics and music, the cultural clashes and nostalgia for home that shaped the exile experience. |
Abstract
ABSTRACT This article discusses how the recordings made by Brazilian singers Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil while in exile in London in the early 1970s adapt and color the ideas first drafted in Brazil several years earlier as part of the Tropicália movement. While the music on those records continues to reflect the tropicalist principles of cultural anthropophagy and other ideas of the Brazilian counterculture, at the same time it also reveals, via both lyrical symbolism and the music itself, the cultural clashes and feelings of nostalgia for home that were part of the exile experience.