Funk is utopic, in Sneed's view, in that it is "the creation of a temporary collective space in which those gathered can lift. Lula’s May Day Speech to Brazilian Workers, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva 489 Portraits: Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, James N. Remember the paused position, start speaking from where you last stopped. Sneed argues that Rio's funk, or funk carioca, is best understood as a form of utopia that absorbs the violent realities of everyday life in the favela and facilitates a life-affirming, often latently spiritual belief in the future. TTS Reader converts any text into a natural-sounding Hindi male voice. As Sneed reflects on his experiences with neighbors and consultants in the massive favela complex of Rocinha, located in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro, over the past thirty years, the reader learns about the convergences of music (funk), race (certain expressions of Blackness, the "Black Atlantic," and negritude), religion (the rise of evangelical Christianity), and organized crime (local drug cartels and gangs). From the first encounters between the Portuguese and indigenous peoples in 1500 to the current political turmoil, the history of Brazil is much more complex. Paul Sneed's intervention into this debate contributes to a tradition of "slow-cooked" ethnography, that is, extensive fieldwork that links personal transformation to sociocultural knowledge production. But what really constitutes "favela culture," and what do certain expressive genres like funk carioca and, more specifically, funk proibidao mean? Why are they significant? What do these songs tell us about Brazilian society, especially as it relates to the residents who are overwhelmingly poor, precarious, working-class non-white men and women? Everybody seems to have an idea of the Brazilian favela.
#Brazilian voices reader series#
Globalized forms of popular culture, especially in cinema-starting with Héctor Babenco's Pixote (1981) and then Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund's widely acclaimed Cidade de Deus (2002) and, more recently, the Netflix-sponsored series Sintonia (2019)-have projected to the world a selective set of images and sounds of favela life in both Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Over the past generation the Brazilian Portuguese term favela has become so ubiquitous in scholarship that many authors don't bother translating it anymore. Machine Gun Voices: Favelas and Utopia in Brazilian Gangster Funk. This extensively revised and expanded second edition of the best-selling Brazil Reader dives deep into the past and present of a country marked by its geographical vastness and cultural, ethnic, and environmental diversity.
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