Why this word is great
TROPICALISTA — [Noun] A member of the Brazilian art movement Tropicália or Tropicalismo, active in the late 1960s, which blended influences from bossa nova, rock and roll, and folk music. From Brazilian Portuguese tropicalista, formed from tropical (referring to the tropics) + -ista ("-ist", denoting a follower or practitioner). Unlike "tropicalist" (an Anglicized dilution) or "bossa nova musician" (a purveyor of cool, contained elegance), the tropicalista was a deliberate collision of high and low, sacred and profane. It is the fuzz guitar slicing through a samba rhythm, the plastic palm trees in a gallery of political protest, the carnival mask worn to a psychedelic happening—a refusal to be pinned down, even as the military regime tried to do exactly that. To be a tropicalista was to dance on the fault lines of a country cracking open.