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Contracultura : alternative arts and social transformation in authoritarian Brazil

Title
Contracultura : alternative arts and social transformation in authoritarian Brazil / Christopher Dunn.
Author
Dunn, Christopher, 1964-
Publication
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

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Description
xiii, 256 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"... 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"--
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index.
Contents
Desbunde -- Experience the experimental -- The sweetest barbarians -- Black Rio -- Masculinity left to be desired.
Call Number
JFE 17-648
ISBN
  • 9781469630014
  • 146963001X
  • 9781469628516
  • 1469628511
LCCN
2016019440
OCLC
945745434
Author
Dunn, Christopher, 1964- author.
Title
Contracultura : alternative arts and social transformation in authoritarian Brazil / Christopher Dunn.
Publisher
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Research Call Number
JFE 17-648
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