tropicalista

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of a Brazilian art movement, Tropicália or Tropicalismo, of the late 1960s, encompassing theatre, poetry, and especially a mixture of music influenced by bossa nova, rock and roll, and various folk musics.

Word forms

tropicalista tropicalistas

Etymology

From Brazilian Portuguese tropicalista (although apparently first attested later as noun). By surface analysis, tropical + -ista. Piecewise doublet of tropicalist.

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