From this melting pot Veloso pioneered the new musical movement, tropicalismo. The movement was a rebellious reaction against the censorship of song lyrics and the suppression of artistic expression that the military dictatorship imposed with an Institutional Act in 1964. The music appealed to a certain element at the country's newly established televised International Song Festivals. Veloso's resulting song “
Tropicalia
” successfully mixed Brazilian music with Western rock, and the...
