Full name: Tropical Truth: A Story of Music and Revolution in Brazil

Author: Caetano Veloso Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Music, Non Fiction, History Culture: Brazil Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780375407888 037540788X

Rebelling against the Elvis-based, American-imported rock scene in late '60s Brazil, Caetano Veloso suffused lyrical Brazilian folksongs with fuzz guitar, avant-jazz, and electronic music-and in doing so blew apart the status quo of Brazilian culture. Caetano and the movement he catalyzed, tropicalia, urged an adoption of personal freedom in politics, music, and lifestyle. His "rabble-rousing," as the government saw it, would get Caetano and his comrade Gilberto Gil arrested and exiled to London to wait out the military dictatorship. His fame increasing by the year, Caetano focused on writing songs about his homeland, returning to Brazil as a national hero-a mantle he still wears today. His most recent album, Live in Bahia, was released to international critical and popular acclaim. Similar books: Bossa Nova by Ruy Castro Lost in Music by Giles Smith White Bicycles by Joe Boyd A Change Is Gonna Come by Craig Werner Last Night a DJ Saved My Life by Bill Brewster Bootleg by Clinton Heylin Yeah Yeah Yeah by Bob Stanley Generation Ecstasy by Simon Reynolds Me, the Mob, and the Music by Tommy James The Brazilian Sound by Chris McGowan Unknown Pleasures by Peter Hook In Search Of The Blues by Marybeth Hamilton Perfecting Sound Forever by Greg Milner The Romantic Generation by Charles Rosen Under the Big Black Sun by John Doe Deep Blues by Robert Palmer Rip it Up and Start Again by Simon Reynolds Bass Culture by Lloyd Bradley Language of the Spirit by Jan Swafford Altamont by Joel Selvin