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How Brazilian Funk Left The Favellas And Moved Into The Mainstream

MUSIC Posted: March 2, 2014 10:31 pm

“Funk’s newfound popularity is fueled by listeners from a generation that has undergone the biggest class shift in Brazil’s history: tens of millions of people moving out of poverty to form a new middle class. If economic empowerment has given this new class a voice, funk has given many of its members something to sing.”

MUSIC Published: 02.28.14

Read the story in The Wall Street Journal Published: 02.28.14

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