This article focuses the tropicalist movement, that "blew-up" in 1968. The analysis develops in two scopes: a critic review, concern the intellectual debate that involved the movement and the historical reflection about the protagonists and his creation procedures. We remark the main purpose of the tropicalist "project": To exercise cultural criticism inside mass culture. Finally, we list a few points of problems to be investigate, in followings historical researchs.
Tropicalism; Popular Song; History; Brazil