No ritmo neurótico: cultura funk e performances proibidas em contexto de violência no Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This study discusses the meanings and experiences that violence has among young funqueiros considering existential aspects in their leisure and day-to-day life in favela communities and neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro. The author begins from her own experiences of having been raised in the Complexo da Maré favela as a native daughter to understand, through funk dance halls, how organized violence is consolidated through criminal factions in order to explain the impact of the war between factions as a way of living out the rivalry and figthts between Young ex funk factions. The focus is on the colloquial use of the term neurosis as an _expression related to the tense and disturbing climate used, especially, among young funqueiros. Considering the contexts in which it is used, I aimed at exploring the meanings that neurosis has as a category of understanding the organization of rules and the use of force in personal interactions, an analysis similar to that proposed by Machado da Silva (2003) about the relationship between the category Urban Violence and violent sociability . In its turn, the ethnography of violence in the Jardim Catarina neighborghood, in greater metropolitan Rio de Janeiro, indicates other circumstances that make the existence of funk rival groups possible, in contrast with the meanings of neurosis in the Complexo da Maré.