Rio de Janeiro's rich, oceanfront promenades have their own music, made immortal in bossa nova tunes such as "The Girl From Ipanema." Carioca funk, on the other hand, is the soundtrack to another city ...

It is the soundtrack of Rio de Janeiro's sprawling shantytowns: a frenetic, bass-heavy beat that packs dancefloors from South America to east London. But plans to transform Rio's raucous funk music ...

Five a.m.In the sultry depths of Rio's Nova Holanda shanty town - or favela - more than 1,000 people are dancing in a narrow street. A wall of speakers stacked 15 feet high and 60 feet wide sends a ...

Rio's funk party-goers say their way of life is being targeted The rumbling of the bass from Rio de Janeiro's baile funk parties was once a familiar sound throughout the Brazilian city every weekend.

The FADER joined Diplo on a trio to Rio in 2004 and discovered the story behind his Favela on Blast mixtape. In 2004, The FADER's then editor-in-chief Knox Robinson joined Diplo on a trip to Rio de ...

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (AFP) – The arrest of a popular funk singer in Brazil on suspicion of glorifying a powerful crime gang has revived a long-standing debate over the criminalization of a genre ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — The air is moist and warm, filled with the odor of trash, cigarettes and car exhaust. At the top of the hill beyond the entrance to the Tabajaras slum, music blares from a ...

High up in a crudely constructed bare-concrete home in the favela of Mangueira, a Funk Carioca beat crackles from tinny smartphone speakers. It's the rhythm of Rio de Janeiro's vibrant hillside ...

Marcio Local is a big name in the Rio funk scene these days. Brazil's love affair with American funk and soul is legendary, and Local is rightly seen as an inheritor of the musical mantle of the great ...

The rumbling of the bass from Rio de Janeiro's baile funk parties was once a familiar sound throughout the Brazilian city every weekend. But over the past few years, the parties have been gradually ...