Capoeira By Taylor G. (Book)

The first in a two-volume series on capoeira. This volume traces the origins of the popular martial art and dance form from the beginning of the slave trade in the Americas in the 1500s to the early years of the Brazilian Republic in the 20th century. Focusing on the people and events that shaped the art form in Brazil prior to the ''academy'' period of the last century, the book explores the subject from many vantage points. Author Gerard Taylor explains how the fighting techniques of African forces laid the groundwork for capoeira movements. He shows how work songs, religion, and various percussive traditions and instruments shaped capoeira music over the years. Drawing on archival sources and historical accounts, the book paints a vivid picture of capoeira's dramatic evolution from the sugar plantations of Pernambuco through the brutal backstreets of Rio and the Minas Gerais goldmines on its way to becoming a world-class practice. Gerard Taylor studied capoeira in the 1980s and 1990s with Master Sylvia Bazzarelli and Contra Master Marcos Dos Santos of the London School of Capoeira Herana. After graduating as an instructor, he co-founded the Oslo Capoeira Klubb Herana with Professora Agnes Folkestad. Gerard has previously worked as a journalist and copywriter. Table of Illustrations • Permissions • Acknowledgments • Introduction • Time Line 1. IN THE BEGINNING Mandinga Gold Merchants • Islam's African Slaves • The Route of All Evil • The Colonial Era • Mwene Puto • ''The rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production'' • The Land of the True Cross • The Line of Tordesillas • The Triangular Trade 52 2. SUGAR BLUES Capture and the March to the Coast • Angolan Kilombos • A Cruel Era • Engenhos • Cutting the Cane • Barreado Sugar • Soca 3. THE RISE OF THE QUILOMBO DOS PALMARES The Dutch West India Company • Palmares • Imbangala • Laws of the Jaga • The Art of Deception: Kiluvia • Macaco • Caapuera • Inside the Quilombo dos Palmares • King of Congo • Kings Ganga Zumba and Zumbi dos Palmares • Johan Mauritz of Nassau and São Jorge • ''Overflowing with slaves for sale'' • ''Rubbish heap of Portugal'' • The War against Palmares • Imbangala Warriors • Santo Antônio e Protetor • Moradores • Bandeirantes • The End of an Era and the Birth of a Legend 141 4. THE GOLD RUSH Gold Mining • Tight Packing and the Middle Passage 157 5. FROM RIO TO THE GOLD MINES Extracting the Gold • Africans and Amerindians in Quilombos • Cowboys, Indians, and Slaves • Amerindian and African Religious Cults in Quilombos • Crime and Punishment • Women in Colonial Brazil 208 6. ''BRAZILIAN BANTU LAND'' Ngolo, the Dance of the Zebra • The Bantu People • Agogô 7. ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN WEST AFRICA Mandinga Magic • Gold Coast, Slave Coast, Fanti, and Ashanti • Islamic Jihad • Unannounced and Unplanned • The Sokoto Caliphate • Islam in Salvador, Bahia • Yoruba Culture in Bahia • Islam, the Fall of Old Oyo, and the Rise of Dahomey • Jeje and Nago 8. THE ST. DOMINGUE REVOLUTION The Rights of Man • Fear Spreads to the USA and Brazil • Abolition • Engenho Santana • ''We shall be able to play, relax and sing any time we wish'' • Work Songs • Batuques Are Forbidden • Witchcraft and Feitiaria • Sedan Chair Porters • Bad Night in Bahia: The 1835 Uprising 9. AN AWFUL LOT OF COFFEE (AND CAPOEIRA) IN BRAZIL Vadiagem • ''United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves'' • Capoeiras, Spies, and Conspiracies • Fear and Loathing in Rio de Janeiro • Coffee and Capoeira • ''Neither man nor his land rested'' • Rio Coffee Carriers 317 10. O BERIMBAU ''O berimbau e o instrumento principal e indispensável'' • Hundreds of Years of Tradition • Atabaques • Custom of the Black People • ''Nobody trusts you if you keep visiting around'' • Orixá • ''Berimbau bateu, angoleiro me chamou'' • The San Hunting Bow • Caxixi • ''Negroes fighting with their open hands'' • Berimbau in Capoeira • Signs, Crosses, Circles, Rodas • ''A canoa virou marinheiro, e no fundo do mar tem dinheiro'' • ''Look out sister, how you walk on the cross /Your foot might slip and your soul get lost'' 11. THE EMPIRE OF BRAZIL Major Nunes Vidigal • ''There remains in the imperial palace but one silver spoon'' 371 Cops and Capoeiristas • Paraguay • Paraná ê, Paraná ê, Paraná • ''Club and Rope'' Impressment • Capangagem • Nagôa and Guayamu • ''A capoeirista . . . with his odd gait'' • Malta Slang Names • ''A special crime and punished with new penalties'' • Rio de Janeiro Quilombos • The Beginning of the End of Empire • Abolition and the Brazilian Republic • The Law of the Free Womb • La Belle Epoque • ''Scientific'' Racism • ''In the pulverization of the earth, there was a long groan'' • The Empire Strikes Back • Santos • Deodoro da Fonseca • ''Slavery is declared abolished in Brazil'' 12. THE REPUBLIC 415 Vadiagem and Bens do Evento • ''The exercise of agility and corporal dexterity known by the term capoeiragem'' • Old Portuguese Bantu-Land • Bahia and the End of the Beginning • Yoruba Magic • Besouro Mangangá • ''Besouro quando morreu /Abriu a bôca e falô /Adeus Maracangalha /Qui e terra de matadô'' • Lampião • ''The art form was slowly extinguished in Rio and Recife, leaving capoeira only in Bahia'' • ''National representative symbol'' • ''Bahia de todos os santos, Bahia dos orixás, Bahia de Menininha, Menininha do Gantois'' APPENDICES A-D Notes • Glossary • Bibliography • About the Author • Index

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ISBN	9781556436017
More	152 x 228 mm, 560 pp, 30 photot & ill.

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