Brazil was and still is a country where the richest live side by side with the poorest of the poor, conservative traditions rub shoulders with extremist liberals, extreme beauty and grotesque ugliness , in an attempt to bring these elements together, tropicalists adopted many musical genres such as samba, frevo, Jovem Guarda, choro, bolero, Anglo-American pop and rock, and avant-garde art music. guard, merging them all together into one unit. The process the tropicalists followed to create their songs has been called "cultural cannibalism" (Perrone, Dunn