“Musical subcultures between rebellion, controlling formats and business ideas Berlin and Rio De Janeiro” is the topic of a panel discussion in Club Monarch in Berlin-Kreuzberg this coming Thursday (18th of June). The panel will discuss the book “FUNK THE CITY” in which the relations of urban every day life of Rio De Janeiro and Berlin are in focus, with their musical subcultures of hip hop and baile funk – which are stigmatised by the middle class with terms such as ghetto, violence and marginality. Do these cultural practices from the urban peripheries present new ideas for a “policy after politics”? Do they offer any resistant “urban action” with which the inhabitants of both the favelas and the immigrant quarters can fight against their marginalisation? Or do they merely create “exotic” music and life stles with an economic surplus which are skimmed by the global cultural industries? Or are they even instrumentalised by the reigning powers, accessing the particular cultural practises of the “poor” and thus ruling them ?
“Funk The City” is based on long term research and various interviews with activists from both Berlin and Rio De Janeiro and collected analyses, essays, talks, photos and lyrics about the sound and urban action from the peripheries of Rio De Janeiro and Berlin.

“FUNK THE CITY” Book release party @ Club Monarch in Kreuzberg, 18th of June, 9PM

Tags: Berlin, Funk The City, Rio De Janeiro

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