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Sex, drugs and feminism: for Brazil’s female funk singers, the personal is political

At first sight, there is seemingly nothing feminist about Carioca funk, the electronic dance music coming out of Rio de Janeiro’s poor favelas. Nearly all the songs sung by women are of the sexually explicit, sometimes violent funk putaria variety – hardly empowering. At least, that’s what I thought when I began my postdoctoral research […]

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