Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art
Brazilian society. This, without doubt, constitutes one of Bimba’s chief merits. On the other side, taking capoeira out of its o ...
Figure 5.6 One of the rare pictures showing Mestre Bimba performing the ginga. Courtesy of Jair Moura. Westernization or folklor ...
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6 Mestre Pastinha and the codification of Angola style Figure 6.1 Mestre Pastinha in 1965. Drawing by A.Neves e Souza, from...Da ...
de Couto Ferraz, and Reginaldo Guimarães, supported by Artur Ramos, decided to make the Second Congress not a mere academic even ...
Vicente Ferreira Pastiña: his early life till 1941 Mestre Pastinha was born as Vicente Ferreira Pastiña in Salvador, 5 April 188 ...
ex-slave just like Bimba’s teacher, the presumed captain of the Bahian Navigation Company, acculturated through 50 or 60 years i ...
The foundation of the Centro Esportivo de Capoeira Angola—CECA, 1940s–1950s During the 1930s the traditional Bahian capoeira bec ...
Noronha gave a slightly different version of that episode in his memoirs. According to him it was only upon Amorzinho’s death th ...
generation he belonged to but also used a range of metaphors and expressions that reflect his very distinctive personality. What ...
The role of the mestres was therefore crucial; only they could transmit the ‘foundations’ of capoeira Angola to the younger gene ...
Pastinha was not—unlike Bimba and many other capoeiras of his time—an active practitioner of candomblé, although he always showe ...
Claiming that capoeira originated in Angola allowed Pastinha to ‘re-Africanize’ a practice at a time reformers such as Bimba cla ...
dogmatic on the issue than some present-day angoleiros: ‘There are many stories about the origins of capoeira which nobody knows ...
what songs were acceptable for the roda, I believe he also contributed to establish clearer boundaries between capoeira on one s ...
Fortunately Pastinha could rely on a handful of well-placed friends. As we have seen, a number of intellectuals and artists stro ...
Pelourinho Square in the old city centre.^66 The move to that impressive town house in such a central location contributed towar ...
Dressed in an impeccable linen suit, always holding an umbrella, Pastinha became a popular and widely respected figure in Salvad ...
the Bahian MP Nita Costa, took Bimba and his group to Rio de Janeiro, in 1956, where they did a demonstration in the Maracanazin ...
The last years Soon another kind of predicament was added to the problems of Pastinha’s deteriorating health. In the early 1970s ...
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