Culture is our weapon
Subtitle: making music and changing lives in Rio de Janeiro
By: Patrick Neate and Damian Platt ; preface by Caetano Veloso.
Contributors: Platt, Damian.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780143116745
Subjects: Blacks -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Social conditions; Blacks -- Crimes against -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro; Social problems -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro; Social change -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro; Non-governmental organizations -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro; Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Social conditions
Notes: Originally published: London :  Latin American Bureau,  2006.
Table of contents: title: Living in a war zone; title: The cradle of crime; title: First moves; title: Rival factions; title: JB tells his story; title: The political moment; title: Funk; title: Back in Alemão; title: People and perceptions; title: The factions; title: Guerra; title: How it works; title: The police; title: Three survivors' stories; title: Trabalhadores or trafi cantes; title: Junior; title: A different way; title: The end of the beginning.