Gil and Caetano are imprisoned

27 December 1986: Number 29 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of world and folk music1968 was a year of political upheaval in Brazil, with a soundtrack provided by a new musical movement, tropicalia, headed by Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso. Their aim was to shake up the Brazilian scene with "cultural cannibalism", mixing rock music with Brazilian styles or the glamour of Brazil's Hollywood star Carmen Miranda. The country had been under military rule since 1964, but in 1968 the...

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