Posted on 02/12/2010 11:57:39 AM PST by maddog55
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A mayor of a Brazilian town has banned Carnival revelers from playing funk or rap music during the traditionally free-wheeling celebrations that kick off around the country on Friday.
Mayor Jose Neto of Sao Lourenco in southeastern Minas Gerais state told Globo television he was banning songs that incite violence and disrespect authority and wanted to protect more traditional Carnival music, such as samba.
Anyone caught listening to funk -- a pounding beat often with sexual lyrics popular in Rio de Janeiro's slums -- or rap during the Carnival period would have to turn it off or face arrest and up to six months in prison, he reportedly said.
"They are mass gatherings that demand better coordination, control and security that a public festival like Carnival doesn't allow us to adopt," Neto told Globo TV.
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Rap fans who go to prison for 6 months will learn what hanging your pants on the ground really means.
We would view that as a mite fascist here.
Incidentally, I believe it’s also considered criminal in Brazil to criticize homosexuality out loud.
Reminds me of the 1960s when acts Gilbert Gil, Caetano Veloso , and Os Mutantes were persecuted by the Brazilian government because they posed some kind of “threat”
“...something new, something that can’t quite be understood, something that doesn’t fit into any of the clear compartments of existing cultural practices, and that won’t do. That is dangerous.”
But it wasn’t just the government that hated their Tropicalia mix of boss novas with psychedelic Beatles’ riffs. The hard Left hated it too because it was a sellout to Western influences.
Bet you could if you put a smile on your face and set it to Samba music....
“It’s a cornhole carnivale!”
I get the rap connotation but when I was in Rio DJ years ago, samba turned people around me into horndogs.
Brazil has all that great samba music and they listen to RAP????
Sounds good to me it is call indecent exposure!
LOL - this ban is going to send the liberals into orbit!
Yep, keep the samba pure...
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