About Tropicália and other arts: aesthetic conflicts and debates around the nomination of the Brazilian culture (1982-2012)

Abstract

This article intends to make a balance of different discourses produced about contemporary Brazilian culture between the beginning of the 1980s and the beginning of the decade of 2010. In the cut-off period, there were crossings that marked the re-readings of various cultural movements of national affirmation, among which the so-called tropicalist movement, we intend to observe different perceptions regarding the estate left by the initiative. In this sense, hemerographic materials, academic or non-academic essays, musical initiatives and traces of memories constitute supports that help to perceive the different efforts of meaning of the being of the national culture. From the analysis of discourses, viewed as producers of meaning in everyday life, proposed by Mary Jane Spink and Benedito Medrado, the article seeks to understand the extent to which Brazilian cultural movements have produced certain places of power in an attempt to define a Brazilian identity, and, consequently, gaps in its constitution and affirmation.