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Christopher Dunn, author of Brutality Garden, first became interested in Tropicália in 1985, after hearing Tropicália, ou Panis et Circenis, which he describes as "a strange 'concept album'" that seemed "ambiguous and utterly confusing." In 1992, Christopher Dunn interviewed Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, and Tom Zé for a National Public Radio program dedicated to the twenty-fifth anniversary of Tropicália on Afropop Worldwide. At the time, Dunn was a graduate student at Brown University, pursuing a degree in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies.

Christopher Dunn holds a joint appointment in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at Tulane University. An affiliate of the Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies and codirector of the Brazilian Studies Council at Tulane, he is coeditor of Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization. For more information about Dunn, visit his website. Photo credit: Johnathan Hilton

Christopher Dunn suggests the following websites for further reading about the Tropicalista Movement.

Official websites of Tropicalist musicians:

Other websites about Brazilian music:





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