Música Popular Brasileira, or MPB, literally "Brazilian Popular Music", designating a trend in post-Bossa Nova urban popular music. It is not a discrete genre but rather a constellation that combines original songwriting and updated versions of traditional Brazilian urban music styles like samba and samba-canção with contemporary influences, from folk to rock and pop. Signifying much more than the sum of the three words would indicate, "MPB" is a contemporary trend that has brought the world many renowned Brazilian artists.
MPB, loosely understood as a "style," debuted in the mid-1960s, with the acronym being applied to types of non-electric music that emerged following the advent, ascension and evolution of bossa nova. MPB artists and audiences were largely connected to the intellectual and student population, causing later MPB to be known as "university music" c. 1970. MPB was born out of an attempt to produce a Brazilian "national" music, thus revitalizing traditional styles. MPB made a considerable impact at that time, boosted by several televised music festivals, where the acronym was popularized.
The earliest MPB borrowed elements of the bossa nova and often relied on thinly-veiled criticism of social injustice and governmental repression, being based on progressive opposition to the political scene characterized by military dictatorship, concentration of land ownership, and imperialism. A variation within MPB was the short-lived but influential artistic movement known as tropicalia.
The climate that created the MPB movement ceased to exist after 1969, but the acronym has survived, albeit with a less specific meaning. Transforming from a left-wing musical movement, MPB became the core of Brazil's urban middle-class music, and the term still indicates a certain aesthetic quality in modern Brazilian music.
2006-11-17 04:23:00 · 2 answers · asked by Pedro M 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Brazilian Music is the best in the World:
Here is a full list of artists involved:
Adriana Calcanhotto
Caetano Veloso
Carlinhos Brown
Chico Buarque
Djavan
Danilo Caymmi
Dori Caymmi
Elis Regina
Gal Costa
Gilberto Gil
Ivan Lins
João Bosco
João Gilberto
Jorge Benjor, formerly Jorge Ben
Joyce
Maria Bethânia
Marisa Monte
Milton Nascimento
Nana Caymmi
Ney Matogrosso
MPB-4
Os Mutantes -- a progressive rock group which had a key role in the birth of MPB
Roberto Carlos
2006-11-19 06:02:58 · answer #1 · answered by nonconformiststraightguy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nice info page on MPB.
Complementary MPB artist list:
Caetano Veloso
Milton Nascimiento
Chico Buarque
Djavan
Carlinhos Brown (Pop-Rock)
Os Mutantes (Rock)
2006-11-17 12:28:09 · answer #2 · answered by YOGI 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋