Tropicália, canonical pop

A wave of Brazilian artists has been building for over a decade an innovative trend of music composition and production, while creating new artistic networks via social medias and digital technology. Most importantly, these new "tropicalistas," musicians, dancers, poets and actors, are addressing issues of race, gender and homophobia in Brazil1. By developing regional and trans-national communication through both globalization and "glocalization,2" this new artistic current is challenging the status quo in Brazil in several ways, among which is promoting non-commercial circuits of distribution. Inspired by the Tropicália movement of the 1960s, they have developed an informal but very coherent Brazilian Avant Garde (in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Recife) which is largely ignored by the Brazilian media and still unknown to most of the global academic world.

Proceedings of the 12th Art of Record Production Conference Mono: Stereo: Multi, 2019

The record production made in Colombia during the boom of danceable tropical music between the 1960s and the 1970s had a prominent transcendence in the historical development of the Colombian music industry. On the other hand, the phenomenon of tropical urban music of today is similar to that of more than 40 years ago, considering that the two moments take place mostly in the city of Medellín, and are more related to sociocultural situations than to the purely musicological ones. Thus, this paper aims to show the points of coincidence of both eras from the study of their record productions versus the commercial and sociocultural circumstances of these genres.

Popular Music Climates. Proceedings from the XXI Biennial Conference of IASPM, Daegu, South Korea, 5th – 9th July 2022, 2023

IASPM@Journal, 2015

Cybèle Varela (b. 1943) is one of the key figures of Tropicalismo and Brazilian Pop Art. The texts and interview included in this catalogue shed new light on the artist’s contribution to Latin American and international artistic discourses, including Pop Art, Narrative Figuration and Video Art. Questions of identity, social and political issues and transnational experiences are central to Varela’s multifaceted production, from the 1960s to the present day. Cybèle Varela (geb. 1943) ist eine der Schlüsselfiguren des Tropicalismo und der brasilianischen Pop-Art. Die Texte, die zusammen mit einem Interview in diesem Katalog erscheinen, werfen ein neues Licht auf den Beitrag, den die Künstlerin für lateinamerikanische und internationale Kunstdiskurse wie die Pop-Art, die Narrative Figuration und die Videokunst geleistet hat. Darüber hinaus spielen Fragen nach der Identität, gesellschaftspolitische Themen sowie transnationale Erfahrungen eine zentrale Rolle in Varelas vielseitiger künstlerischer Produktion von den 1960er Jahren bis heute. Cybèle Varela (n. 1943) representa um dos marcos referenciais do Tropicalismo e da Pop Art brasileira. Os textos e as entrevistas incluídos neste catálogo lançam uma nova luz sobre a contribuição da artista no panorama não apenas da arte latino-americana, mas também no cenário internacional, tocando a Pop Art, a Figuração Narrativa e a Videoarte. Desde as primeiras manifestações da década de sessenta até os dias atuais, a multifacetada produção artística de Varela tem seu foco nos spectos relacionados à identidade, às questões sociais e políticas e às experiências transacionais.

Handbook of Latin American Studies, 2022

Introductory essay and abstracts of selected works about music in Brazil published in the Americas and Europe during 2018-21. Ensaio introdutório e resumos descritivos e/ou críticos de obras selecionadas sobre música no Brasil publicadas nas Américas e Europa entre 2018 e 2021.

Short essay and abstracts of selected literature about music in Brazil published between 2011 and 2015. Breve introdução e resumos de textos selecionados sobre música brasileira publicados entre 2011 e 2015.

Music - Brazil. Handbook of Latin American Studies - Humanities - Vol. 74. Washington: Library of Congress, 2020

Introductory essay and abstracts of selected works about music in Brazil published in the Americas and Europe during 2014-18. Ensaio introdutório e resumos descritivos e/ou críticos de obras selecionadas sobre música no Brasil publicadas nas Américas e Europa entre 2014 e 2018.

Handbook of Latin American Studies - Library of Congress, 2012

Introductory essay and abstracts of literature about music in Brazil published between 2008 and 2012. Introdução e resumos de textos sobre música brasileira publicados entre 2008 e 2012.

Latin American Studies Association Meeting …, 1998