How do you explain Luiz Gonzagas crazy outfits?!?
Growing up in the sertão, Luiz dreamed of joining Lampião, a volatile and ruthlessly dangerous “Robin Hood” who terrorized the cities and plantations of the northeast in the 1920s and 30s. Lampião and his troops, called cangaceiros, toured the sertão, stealing from and killing elites, but often helping the farm laborers that provided his band with aid and information. These backland bandits were renowned at the very same time that North American Western films were in vogue throughout Brazil – and the geographic and cultural empathy Gonzaga and other Brazilians felt with the “wild west” isn’t lost on anyone! The cangaceiros resembled the cowboy actors from the north that Brazilians watched in countless imported films. One could argue, in fact, that Brazilians reconceptualized American cowboy culture into their own cangaceiro culture, giving Lampião the kind of popularity and notoriety that Hollywood actors of the time were getting from North American audiences. Thus when Luiz Gonzaga do
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