Christopher Dunns 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 countrys social and justice movements have their origins in the countercultural attitudes; practices; and sensibilities that flourished during the military dictatorship.
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