funk carioca

Urban Violence is the element that guide perception among the street and slum on Rio de Janeiro. A violence whose origin is found on slum, where live the poor, on streets that “suffer” because of that, the practice of informal trading of market.

For some people it’s just a promess of Modern Age, violence that’s projected and ritualized for young men troughout the “Carioca’s Funk”. Funk is thought like a ritual where all violence is acted, as if a theater. Funk is used to affirm central points of social lifestyle, relationships, sexualities and friendships.

But; to talking about violence can not be talking about poor people or funk, to talk about violence is to talk about society, we can’t accept the idea to criminalize poor and misery. Fights, crimes, drugs, can happen among folks and don’t care if they are richs or poor.

Funk find your strength in to be independents of media and because it’s a symbol of social resistance of culture. Although carioca funk is a good example of resistance culture, it’s not a consciousness phenomena used as a political tool. Funk is just a leisure tool , but it’s the most important thing to join street people (people from formal city) and slum people.