Viver é melhor que sonhar? : música engajada, festivais e tropicalistas nos embates com a Ditadura (1965-1968)

Abstract

The present work seeks to analyze the Civil-Military Dictatorship, starting with the coup d'état during the government of João Goulart and how the laws and decrees legitimized its establishment in Brazil. Then, I analyze the Song Festivals, which fostered a series of questions about what was happening in the country, especially among university students from the urban middle class, after realizing the growing interest in the festivals, the songs started to be censored. Composers and performers of songs that contained political content, considered to be engaged songs, began to be persecuted. In this conflictual context, a new movement in Brazil begins, the Tropicalistas, who came breaking taboos and bringing a new guise of music to the country, which implied persecution and exile.