Capoeira: a Brazilian Art Form History, Philosophy, and Practice

Name: Capoeira: a Brazilian Art Form History, Philosophy, and Practice
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ISBN: 9780938190295

ISBN-10: 0938190296

ISBN-13: 9780938190295

Edition: 2nd

Authors: Bira Almeida

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Capoeira weaves fighting, music, dance, prayer, and ritual into an urgent strategy by which people live, struggle, celebrate, and survive together. In this book Bira Almeida--or Mestre Acordeon as he is respectfully called in capoeira circles--documents his own tradition with both the panoramic eye of the historian and the passionate heart of the capoeirista. He transports the reader from the damn of New World history in Brazil to the streets of twentieth-century Bahia (the spiritual home of capoeira) to the giant urban centers of North America (wher capoeira is now spreading in new lineages from the old masters). This book is valuable for anyone interested in ethnocultural traditions,…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Publication date: 2/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.70" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English