When Brazil Was Even More Troubled Than It Is Today, A Pop Music Movement That Lasted About A Year Transformed The Country

“Tropicália was a movement that lasted just short of a year, spanning from Hélio Oiticica’s 1967 art installation of the same name, wherein viewers walked along a tropical sand path only to come face-to-face with a television set, to the debut of a TV show, wherein its constituents buried the movement on-air. But [it] modernized Brazilian culture just as the country’s ruling military junta began to strangle democracy and expression.”