Search for dissertations about: "Favela funk"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Favela funk.

2. 1. Favela Funk – Ways of Being Young in the Urban Peripheries of Rio de Janeiro

   Author : Hannah Pollack Sarnecki; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Favela funk; Brazil; violence; sexuality; sovereignty; gangs factions; security; power; socialantropologi; Social Anthropology;

   Abstract : During the last decades, funk music produced in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro has been travelling the world as a genre of contemporary cool. Construed as both hip and authentic and consumed globally, it has become a political and commercial asset in the nation’s rise to economic dominance and in Rio’s campaign to become a global city. READ MORE