英语听力：自然百科 热带风潮的革命 Tropicalia Revolution—9
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The main aim of Tropicalism was really shake the environment, the musical and cultural environment. This small group from Bahia thought that violence of our situation and the importance of mass culture had a lot in common, you know, political violence and pop icons1, you know, it had to do with rock'n'roll. That's why we liked the Beatles, because they loved what had been up to that moment, just commercial rubbish.
With rock'n'roll and with, you know, pop music, with the Beatles and everything, we thought that we should just be sounding national, sounding Brazilian, but sounding global as well. Because of the dictatorship, we needed a strong reaction from the society, in terms of, of enduring for freedom, for liberty, for freedom of speech, for circulation of ideas.
The Tropicalia movement included
Gal2 Costa and Tom Ze, also from Bahia, along with poets, film directors and artists, all
determined3 to create a new Brazilian style. Their philosophy involved cultural
cannibalism4,
devouring5 different influences to create a new style. Those influences / included western pop, represented by the Beatles, pop art, the
glamour6 and kitsch of Brazil's Hollywood star of the '40s, Carmen Miranda, music from the Brazilian regions and the country songs of Luiz Gonzaga to Bahia's Dorival Caymmi and the classic samba of Paulinho Da Viola, who sometimes appeared at Tropicalia events, as did yet another major Tropicalia hero and influence, the songwriter, Jorge Ben.
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