Cultural diffusion within the region has allowed the music styles to converge, change and diverge.

[2] Periperi's location in relation to Salvador allows people who live outside of the city center to participate in an urban-like social environment.

Many are exclusively black, but Ara Ketu claims to be the first group to have opened itself to people of all classes, ethnicities and religions.

[3] It is important to many bloco afro groups to distinguish themselves from the Afro-Bahian culture, and thereby avoid the Bahian mass media.

Generally, young Brazilian funk enthusiasts prefer the former groups and their associations with blackness and modernity.