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Tropical Truth (Paperback)

By: Barbara Einzig (Author) and Caetano Veloso (Author)

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"Caetano is likely to be remembered as one of the '60's great composers, period."-- New York Times Book Review
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.

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Though less well known than some of his Brazilian contemporaries like Antonio Carlos Jobim or Gilberto Gil, singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso's career has spanned some of the most significant developments in his country's musical history, as well as some of its most turbulent political events. He was an important figure in Tropicalia, an avant-garde late 1960s artistic movement with a cornucopia of influences, from Italian Futurism to psychedelia; its symbiotic relationship with left-wing politics earned Veloso the displeasure of Brazil's military junta, and several spells in jail. Since the 1980s he has become a cult figure, patronized by Brazilian music boosters like David Byrne and Arto Lindsay. His autobiography, TROPICAL TRUTH, is both a personal story and a memoir of turbulent yet exhilarating times, packed with vivid, eccentric, iconoclastic characters, and told in poetic, hothouse prose that echoes his lyrics and music. Throughout, Veloso displays an acute intellect, a refreshing sense of childlike wonder, and the excitement of discovery, viewing even his harrowing time in jail with an artist's eye for tiny, telling details.

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