Culture is our weapon : making music and changing lives in Rio de Janeiro

Culture is our weapon : making music and changing lives in Rio de Janeiro / Patrick Neate and Damian Platt ; foreword by Caetano Veloso.

Relates the story of Grupo Cultural AfroReggae, an organization based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that employs music and an appreciation for black culture to inspire residents of shantytowns to resist the drugs that are ruining their neighborhoods.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neate, Patrick
Other Authors: Platt, Damian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2010.
Subjects:
Blacks > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro > Social conditions.
Blacks > Crimes against > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Social problems > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Social change > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Non-governmental organizations > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Social conditions.
Table of Contents:
  • Living in a war zone
  • The cradle of crime
  • First moves
  • Rival factions
  • JB tells his story
  • The political moment
  • Funk
  • Back in Alemão
  • People and perceptions
  • The factions
  • Guerra
  • How it works
  • The police
  • Three survivors' stories
  • Trabalhadores or trafi cantes
  • Junior
  • A different way
  • The end of the beginning.

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