Contracultura: Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil

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Christopher Dunn's history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that developed alongside the ascent of hardline forces within the regime in the late 1960s. Focusing on urban, middle-class Brazilians often inspired by the international counterculture that flourished in the United States and parts of western Europe, Dunn shows how new understandings of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship erupted under even the most oppressive political conditions. Dunn reveals previously ignored connections between the counterculture and Brazilian music, literature, film, visual arts, and alternative journalism. In chronicling desbunde, the Brazilian hippie movement, he shows how the state of Bahia, renowned for its Afro-Brazilian culture, emerged as a countercultural mecca for youth in search of spiritual alternatives. As this critical and expansive book demonstrates, many of the country's social and justice movements have their origins in the countercultural attitudes, practices, and sensibilities that flourished during the military dictatorship. Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title......Page 3 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction: Power and Joy......Page 18 1 Desbunde......Page 53 2 Experience the Experimental......Page 89 3 The Sweetest Barbarians......Page 125 4 Black Rio......Page 163 5 Masculinity Left to Be Desired......Page 192 Epilogue......Page 218 Notes......Page 224 Bibliography......Page 252 C......Page 268 D......Page 269 J......Page 270 N......Page 271 S......Page 272 Z......Page 273