Música popular brasileira

Música popular brasileira (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmuzikɐ popuˈlaʁ bɾaziˈlejɾɐ], Popular Brazilian Music) or MPB is a trend in post-bossa nova urban popular music in Brazil that revisits typical Brazilian styles such as samba, samba-canção and baião and other Brazilian regional music, combining them with foreign influences, such as jazz and rock.

Brazilian popular music
Native name
Música popular brasileira (MPB)
Stylistic originsBossa nova, samba, samba-canção, baião, jazz, rock, Brazilian regional styles

This movement has produced and is represented by many renowned Brazilian artists, such as Jorge Ben Jor, Ivan Lins, Belchior and Dominguinhos, whose individual styles generated their own trends within the genre. The term is often also used to describe any kind of music with Brazilian origins and "voice and guitar style" that arose in the late 1960s.

Variations within MPB were the short-lived but influential artistic movement known as tropicália, and the music of samba rock.[1]

History

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 beginning, rise 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."[2][3]

Like bossa nova, MPB was an attempt to produce a "national" Brazilian music that drew from traditional styles. MPB made a considerable impact in the 1960s, thanks largely to several televised music festivals. The beginning of MPB is often associated with Elis Regina's interpretation of Vinícius de Moraes and Edu Lobo's "Arrastão." In 1965, one month after celebrating her 20th birthday, Elis appeared on the nationally broadcast Festival de Música Popular Brasileira and performed the song. Elis recorded Arrastão and released the song as a single, which became the biggest selling single in Brazilian music history at that time and catapulted her to stardom. This brought MPB to a national Brazilian audience and many artists have since performed in the style over the years.

Many of the albums on Rolling Stone Brazil's list of the 100 greatest Brazilian albums fall under this style.[4]

See also

References
  1. Time Out São Paulo. Time Out Guides. 2009. pp. 191–92. ISBN 1846701260.
  2. UOL, 500 anos de Música brasileira(in Portuguese)
  3. Performance da música indígena no Brasil (in Portuguese)
  4. Anexo:Lista dos 100 maiores discos da música brasileira pela Rolling Stone Brasil(in Portuguese)
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