page_title: Culture of Brazil
section_title: Bossa nova and MPB
hierarchical_section_title: Culture of Brazil / Music / Bossa nova and MPB
caption_attribution_description: English: Caetano Veloso at Umbria Jazz (Perugia - Italy).
context_page_description: The culture of Brazil is primarily Western and is derived from Portuguese culture, but presents a very diverse nature showing that an ethnic and cultural mixing occurred in the colonial period involving mostly Indigenous people of the coastal and most accessible riverine areas, Portuguese people and African people. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, together with further waves of Portuguese colonization, Italians, Spaniards, Germans, Austrians, Levantine Arabs, Armenians, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Greeks, Poles, Helvetians,
  Ukrainians and Russianssettled in Brazil, playing an important role in its culture as it started to shape a multicultural and multiethnic society.
  As consequence of three centuries of colonization by the Portuguese empire, the core of Brazilian culture is derived from the culture of Portugal. The numerous Portuguese inheritances include the language, cuisine items such as rice and beans and feijoada, the predominant religion and the colonial architectural styles. These aspects, however, were influenced by African and Indigenous American traditions, as well as those from other Western European countries.
context_section_description: Bossa nova is a style of Brazilian music that originated in the late 1950s.  It has its roots on samba but features less percussion, employing instead a distinctive and percussive guitar pattern. Bossa nova gained mainstream popularity in Brazil in 1958 with the song Chega de Saudade, written by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes. Together with João Gilberto, Jobim and Moraes would become the driving force of the genre, which gained worldwide popularity with the song "Garota de Ipanema" as interpreted by Gilberto, his wife Astrud and Stan Getz on the album Getz/Gilberto.  The bossa nova genre remains popular in Brazil, particularly among the upper classes and in the Southeast.
  MPB (acronym for Música popular brasileira, or Brazilian Popular Music) was a trend in Brazilian music that emerged after the bossa nova boom. It presents many variations and includes elements of styles that range from Samba to Rock music.  In the 1960s some MPB artists founded the short-lived but highly influential tropicália movement, which attracted international attention. Among those were Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé, Nara Leão, Ney Matogrosso and Os Mutantes.
caption: Caetano Veloso, an icon of Tropicália and Música popular brasileira (MPB).
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