Christopher Dunn’s history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the 1960s and 70s. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that erupted even as hardline forces ascended. Focusing on urban, middle-class Brazilians, Dunn reveals previously ignored connections between the counterculture and Brazilian music, literature, film, visual arts, and alternative journalism, which created new understandings of race, gender, sexuality, and citizenship amidst oppressive political conditions.