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Music World History & Scenes

Choose a genre, move through countries and cities, then follow the scenes, artists, labels, releases, and contributors that shaped the sound.

Genre

Country

City

Latin / Brazil

São Paulo Timeline

São Paulo/Before late 1960s-1970s

Roots of São Paulo Tropicália

Bossa nova, samba, rock, avant-garde composition, and television-era pop culture fed the collision. Follow it through SZA and Cocteau Twins, labels like Fania, 4AD and Domino, and releases such as Ctrl and Heaven or Las Vegas. The producer and contributor trail runs through Anton Corbijn, while the later movement points toward 1990s New York Hip-Hop and Kingston Dub and Roots Reggae.

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São Paulo/late 1960s-1970s

São Paulo Tropicália

Experimental Brazilian song, pop art, political pressure, studio collage, and global references bent into a new language. A useful trail moves through composers, arrangers, visual identity, labels, festivals, and records that made hybridity feel radical. Follow it through SZA and Cocteau Twins, labels like Fania, 4AD and Domino, and releases such as Ctrl and Heaven or Las Vegas. The producer and contributor trail runs through Anton Corbijn, while the later movement points toward 1990s New York Hip-Hop and Kingston Dub and Roots Reggae.

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São Paulo/After late 1960s-1970s

São Paulo Tropicália Afterlife

Latin alternative, art-pop, sampling, indie scenes, and global psych all keep returning to the vocabulary. Follow it through SZA and Cocteau Twins, labels like Fania, 4AD and Domino, and releases such as Ctrl and Heaven or Las Vegas. The producer and contributor trail runs through Anton Corbijn, while the later movement points toward 1990s New York Hip-Hop and Kingston Dub and Roots Reggae.

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