Panis et Circencis: the manifesto album of Tropicalism

Tropicália or Panis et Circencis released in 1968 is a concept album because it integrates Tropicalist aesthetics and language into its corpus. With its twelve songs from start to finish it constitutes a kind of anthropophagic ritual of high devouring in which the relics of Brazil represented through cultural political and social myths reinforce the intention of suturing the consolidation of the past present and future of the Brazilian nation. It is also considered dialogical and polyphonic as the dissonant but collective voices arrangements and compositions by Caetano Veloso Gilberto Gil Gal Costa Capinan Tom Zé Os Mutantes Torquato Neto and Rogério Duprat reference Oswald de Andrade's Anthropophagism Glauber Rocha's Cinema Novo the artistic expressions of Hélio Oiticica and Rubens Gerchman as well as pop art and national and international counterculture. However it is an album-object that invites the viewer to activate all the senses synesthetically because in the plurality of the universe of each song there is something to be read seen felt and possibly transformed so it became the manifesto of the Vanguard Movement whose ideologies transformed MPB.