Funk Carioca

Funk carioca
Stylistic origins	Miami bass, electro-funk, freestyle, Brazilian rhythms
Cultural origins	Mid-1980s, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Typical instruments	Drum machine, turntable, sampler, synthesizer, vocal
Subgenres
Proibidão - Melodic funk

Funk carioca, favela funk and, elsewhere in the world, baile funk, is a type of dance music from Rio de Janeiro, derived from Miami bass and African style music.

"Baile funk", in Brazil, refers not to the music, but to the actual parties or discothèques in which the music is played. Although originated in Rio, funk carioca has become increasingly popular amongst working classes in other parts of Brazil. In the whole country, funk carioca is most often simply known as funk, although it is very different musically from what funk means in most other places.

Funk carioca was once a direct derivative of Miami bass and freestyle (another Miami-based genre) music from the United States. The reason why these genres, very localized in the USA, became popular and influential in Rio de Janeiro is due to proximity. Miami was a popular plane stop for Rio DJs to buy the latest American records.

During the 1970s, in Rio de Janeiro, nightclubs play funk and soul.

Funk carioca was popularized in the 1980s in Rio de Janeiro's favelas, the city's slums. From the mid-1990s on, it was a mainstream phenomenon in Brazil. Funk songs discuss topics as varyied as poverty, human dignity, racial pride of black people, sex (breaking taboos), violence and social injustice. Social analysts believe that carioca funk is a genuine expression of the severe social issues that burden the poor and black people in Rio.

According to DJ Malboro, the main influence for the emergence of funk carioca was the single Planet Rock of Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force, launched in 1982.

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