MPB

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• The genre MPB, which stands for 'Música Popular Brasileira', combines traditional Brazilian music with contemporary styles.

• The musical values of new rock groups and their public, to be sure, sharply contrast with the political involvement, lyrical prowess, and musicianship of the established figures of MPB.

  Academic text (1990)

• Central figures of MPB, on the other hand, have engaged rock without ever having depended on it.

  Academic text (1990)

• The powerful presence of the "New Young Guard" has stirred much debate about the quality and evolution of Brazilian popular music and has invited comparison with traditional forms, as well as with the previously dominant MPB current.

  Academic text (1990)

• The emergence and success of Blitz in 1982-83 triggered an avalanche of fully electric groups that achieved a major commercial boom and overshadowed MPB.

  Academic text (1990)

• While some social consciousness is evident in rock, poet-composers of the caliber of MPB's Chico Buarque, for instance, have yet to appear.

  Academic text (1990)

• Since the time of Bossa Nova and MPB, the tonic is emptiness, and musicians are at the mercy of a single idea imposed by the cultural industry: consumption.

  Academic text (1990)

• The language of Brazil's rockers is bereft of the metaphorical and imagistic tendencies of MPB.

  Academic text (1990)

• A noted Brazilian chronicler writes that rock "exerted great influence" not so much in terms of attempts at copies, but rather "blending into the corpus of MPB."

  Academic text (1990)

• Many have lamented the displacement of MPB, impugned the musical reputation of rockers, or warned of the dangers of the "false glitter" of show business.

  Academic text (1990)

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