MPB (Música Popular Brasileira) is a specific musical genre of Brazilianpopular music that employs sophisticated lyrics, melodies, and harmonies in which the commercial aspect is subordinate to the performer's artistic standards.
During the 1960s, this abbreviation applied to the song movement that followed the bossa nova, with composers and audiences largely connected to the intellectual thinking of student medium, causing it to be known as popular "university" music. MPB made a considerable impact at that time, followed by the student shows and famous song festivals promoted by television between 1965-69. This movement developed elements created by the bossa nova, led by a theme often linked to criticism of social injustice and dictatorial repression, being based on the national-populist thesis, current amongst the left at that time, of opposition to the military regime based on the alliance of progressive classes against the dictatorship, landowners, and imperialism.
After 1969, the climate that created the MPB movement ceased to exist but the abbreviation survived, however with a less specific meaning, yet still problematical, indicating in some way that type of production of Brazilian music in which a certain aesthetic quality is recognized.
MPB is a contemporary trend that has brought the world many renowned Brazilian artists.
MPB (Música Popular Brasileira) is a specific musical genre of Brazilian popular music that employs sophisticated lyrics, melodies, and harmonies in which the commercial aspect is subordinate to the performer's artistic standards.
During the 1960s, this abbreviation applied to the song movement that followed the bossa nova, with composers and audiences largely connected to the intellectual thinking of student medium, causing it to be known as popular "university" music.
After 1969, the climate that created the MPB movement ceased to exist but the abbreviation survived, however with a less specific meaning, yet still problematical, indicating in some way that type of production of Brazilian music in which a certain aesthetic quality is recognized.
In this sense, MPB was distinguished from international pop music and rock and roll, in the early sixties' style of groups such as the Beatles, which used electric instrumentation.
MPB is now frequently used to refer to the music of artists who made their marks in the late sixties; the acronym also differentiates the work of those songwriters from the production of the eighties' generation, which is clearly dominated by the rock sound.
The present work focuses on the major figures of MPB who established their artistic reputations in the late sixties and early seventies and whose work has been fundamental in shaping the concept and practice of Brazilian song of the last two decades.
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