MPB (Música Popular Brasileira)

MPB (Música Popular Brasileira) The acronym MPB stands for a body of songs otherwise known as Música Popular Brasileira, or Brazilian popular music. Though scholars and music critics tend to claim that MPB is not a musical genre, or in any way describable by a relatively uniform set of characteristics, certain similarities do tend to unite a significant portion of the MPB repertoire. More specifically, the term MPB is most closely associated with the tradition of songwriting, and less with…