{"id":6540,"date":"2015-06-05T10:23:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T17:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6540"},"modified":"2015-06-16T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T17:26:00","slug":"favela-funk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/05\/favela-funk\/","title":{"rendered":"Favela Funk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/proof.nationalgeographic.com\/2015\/06\/03\/a-photographer-infiltrates-the-rio-funk-scene\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from National Geographic<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">A Photographer Infiltrates the Rio Funk Scene<\/h1>\n<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/proof.nationalgeographic.com\/author\/ebenfield\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Benfield<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/proof.nationalgeographic.com\/files\/2015\/06\/08_078_RioBaileFunk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Funk carioca, also called baile funk, is a musical style that\u2019s been around for more than 25 years, but in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, a new culture of <em>funkeiros<\/em> has emerged. These are people whose identity, lifestyle, fashion, and body language are defined by funk.<\/p>\n<p>Photographer Vincent Rosenblatt spent ten years documenting the funk scene in Rio, and his work was recently featured in the March issue of <em>National Geographic<\/em> in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Here, photo coordinator Edward Benfield interviews Rosenblatt about his project <a href=\"http:\/\/vincentrosenblatt.photoshelter.com\/#%21\/index\/G0000tzvEHxjqDVc\/I0000yFGfpxa0jvw\" target=\"_blank\">Rio Baile Funk! Favela Rap (2005-2014).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/proof.nationalgeographic.com\/2015\/06\/03\/a-photographer-infiltrates-the-rio-funk-scene\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue and view all photos at Nat Geo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from National Geographic A Photographer Infiltrates the Rio Funk Scene by Edward Benfield Funk carioca, also called baile funk, is a musical style that\u2019s been around for more than 25 years, but in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, a new culture of funkeiros has emerged. These are people whose identity, lifestyle, fashion, and body [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}