"Desafiando o coro dos contentes": Torquato Neto e a produção cultural brasileira nas décadas de 1960-70

• Autor(a) principal: Alves, Valéria Aparecida
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12677
• topic: Ditadura Militar; Torquato Neto; Produção cultural 1960-70; Música Popular Brasileira; Tropicália; Contracultura; Military dictatorship; Cultural production -1960 s-70 s; Brazilian Popular Music; Tropicalism; Counterculture; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

The object of study of this research has singled out Torquato de Araújo Neto, who experienced political, economical, and cultural transformations in the late 1950 s and the early 1970 s. He participated actively in the tropicalism movement in music and in the marginal or underground movie production. He also used the press, a privileged medium, to debate and explicit the context in which he was living. From the analysis of Torquato Neto s life s path and discourse, this work aimed at problematizing the Brazilian cultural production during the period of authoritarianism and at discussing the proposals for a renewed Brazilian popular music, the debate among artists and intellectuals, and the various forms of resistance. The research was carried out using the following sources of information: song lyrics, three newspaper columns - Música Popular, published in the Sports newspaper in 1967, Plug, published in Correio da Manhã in 1970, and Geléia Geral, published in Última Hora also in 1970. Other sources were letters, notes, poems, and images about the tropicalism movement found on record covers, in O Estado de São Paulo, Folha de São Paulo and Folha da Tarde newspapers, and in Veja magazine. Videos which registered the stage performance of the movement participants were also used. It is possible to conclude that, during the period of time when increasing measures were taken to curtail freedoms and to repress, a number of artists and intellectuals resisted that arbitrariness and protested against the established order, using the defense that Creating is resisting. They marginally produced, searched for alternative spaces and a new aesthetic language. They displayed anarchic behavior in relation to political and cultural order. They revendicated freedom in every aspect of life, and Torquato Neto was the spokesman of this defense movement