The funk of Rio de Janeiro and communities: between the prohibition by law and peace by war

Abstract

At one point in continuing operations against urban slums and multiple procedures are performed in the city of Rio de Janeiro to host the Olympic Games and the World Cup 2014, highlighting the staging of a narrative of a state own war in elite units of the Military Police, Civil Police and army troops backed by tanks penetrating and helicopter gunships communities, it seems important to try to escape media charm and move the gaze critique discourses that represent reality from the other side of the trench where the absence of the state and the dominance of the drug is generating another way of life . With a history of the formation and the recent changes in one of the most powerful manifestations of Latin American cultural peripheries ( the Funk Carioca ) and analysis of some highlights of a corpus of letters that include hard and bloody world data armed violence , the essay attempts to explain the importance of Funk spaces or “Proibidão” for the study of contemporary popular culture in Rio and tries to think, also, the metamorphosis that speech happens in times of “peace” of Rio's shantytowns where the police behave with residents in the manner of an occupying army . The articulation of the discourse of the “forbidden” and chronicles of the town with their criminal and simple inhabitants of the regions of exclusion and segregation characters suggests a new textuality as a place of staging a narrative fiction with powerful role for the sociability of these territories. Read this music which feature the experiences of narco world in the city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) appears thus as an attempt to understand the phenomenon not as a police matter , but as revealing element of the processes of representation from below, from those below and your own babbling.