#brega funk

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This year’s unofficial Rio Carnival hit came from an unlikely source: MC Loma, a 15-year-old girl from a peripheral neighbourhood of Recife, the regional capital of Pernambuco. For many Brazilians ‘Envolvimento’ was their introduction to an exciting new sound, featuring the trademark heavy bass and offbeat rhythm of brega funk, a style of dance music from Recife’s comunidades or periferia (favelas).

Recife is a tropical coastal city where the temperature rarely drops below 25 degrees and vegetation constantly threatens to reclaim the built environment. In the 1980s it was considered one of the most dangerous cities in the world; things have since improved, but it remains severely underdeveloped in parts. Brega funk is the perfect soundtrack to this tropical metropolis, both sexy and aggressive. The music can be heard day or night, under the scorching sun or dull yellow street lights, as women in jean shorts roll their waists by the greasy plastic tables and topless men sip ice-cold beer from plastic cups.

The sound began in the bailes (parties) of the poor, predominantly black and mixed-raced neighbourhoods and was initially scorned by the middle class. However, today, according to fan Adriane from Janga, a town just outside Recife, “the music is smashing prejudice about favelas and black culture”.