How Music From Rio's Favelas Conquered the World's Playlists

Brazil · Culture

Key Facts

—The sound. Brazilian funk, or funk carioca, is a bass-heavy dance music born in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas.

—The roots. It grew in the nineteen eighties from imported Miami bass records and nineteen seventies American funk.

—The persecution. For years the parties were policed and the music was criminalised, even as it spread.