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 ...

RIO DE JANEIRORIO DE JANEIRO — 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 ...

Once the rage in Rocinha, Rio's biggest slum, hardcore funk dance parties have become tamer since police reasserted control last November after expelling drug barons who ruled the area for 30 years.

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 ...

In this Feb. 3, 2012 photo, a woman dances during a funk "baile" in the Cantagalo slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Huge funk “bailes,” or parties, go on past dawn, packed with shirtless young men who ...

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 ...

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 ...

Superstar DJ Fatboy Slim is bringing the sounds of Brazil's poorest slums to Britain. Rio funk is the music of choice for armed drug gangs and the impoverished youth of Brazil's shanty towns, known as ...

Maybe it's the warm weather. Maybe it's the world-famous beaches with mountains on the horizon in both cities. Well, whatever the reason, musician Rogê says nothing makes him feel more like a native ...