Contracultura: Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781469630014)

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.

Author: Christopher Dunn
ISBN-10: 146963001X
ISBN-13: 9781469630014
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2016
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d