Contracultura: Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil

by Christopher Dunn

Book Overview

Christopher Dunn's 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469628511
• ISBN13: 9781469628516
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"