tropicalista noun1 •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.As sons of the Portuguese, Caetano and Gil and all the rest of us tropicalistas absorbed this folk influence, transmuted it and then took it to the world.” — 2007 formstropicalistas
