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The paper addresses the phenomenon called "Batalha do Passinho", a "challenge" among young dancers of the musical genre funk carioca, who gained visibility through choreographies shot on mobile phones and disseminated on YouTube. Departing from this case, we intend, first, to discuss the mediation role of mobile and locative media such as mobile phones articulated with musical platforms such as YouTube, producing some reconfigurations of the funk scene, besides its new links with other "peripherical" musical scenes, such as the technomelody scene from Pará. Further, the paper seeks to discuss the consequences of this mixture to the stability of the notion of genre, which seems to be in a moment of intense destabilization as a result of creative appropriation that occurs in social networks, resulting in the emergence of a "Peripheric" Popular Music network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]