this book combines
linguistic analysis and ethnographic interpretation - it shows
how this musical practice proposes a new reading on the social
cartography of the city of Rio de Janeiro -
funk-se quem
quiser: no batidão negro da cidade carioca
is available via
livraria travessa on this link.
Published by
Carlos Alberto da Lima in 2012, the book
Os 583 Dias da Pacificação Dos
Complexos da Penha e do Alemão
(the 583 Days of the Pacification of the Penha and
German Complexes) by Colonel Carlos Alberto de Lima
charts the very first pacification process that took
place in two favela conglomerates, considered
the bastions of drug trafficking in 2010.
The perimeters were invaded and occupied within 11
hours, in which time a large body of the traffickers
fled through the forests and symbolically a
Brazilian flag was erected atop the main favela hill
Morro do Alemão.