- Introduction Acknowledgements xiii
- 1 The competing master narratives of capoeira history
- Myths, fakes and facts
- ‘Extirpate the canker’: Eurocentric repression
- In search of the ‘Brazilian race’: nationalism I
- The search for a Brazilian gymnastics: nationalism II
- The search for purity and survivals: ethnic perspectives
- From ‘survivals’ to ‘extensions’: Afrocentric narratives
- Regional, corporate and class discourses
- 2 Capoeira in the context of the Black Atlantic
- African, slave and popular culture
- Slave culture in Brazil
- Combat games of the Black Atlantic
- 3 Capoeiragem in Rio de Janeiro, c.1800–1930
- Rio, capital of a plantation empire
- Slave capoeira, 1808–1850
- The broadening of the social base, 1850–1890
- Nagoas and Guaiamus: the capoeira gangs
- The republican purge
- 4 Workers, vagrants and tough guys in Bahia, c. 18 60–1950
- Imperial Bahia
- ‘Vagrancy’ in Bahia, c.1890–1950
- Capoeira as a weapon: troublemakers and tough guys
- Conclusion
- 5 Mestre Bimba and the development of ‘Regional’ style
- Martial arts and modernity
- Mestre Bimba and capoeira in the ring
- New movements and teaching methods
- New rituals and a new constituency
- The meaning of regional style
- 6 Mestre Pastinha and the codification of Angola style
- The revaluation of Afro-Bahian culture
- Vicente Ferreira Pastiña: his early life till
- The foundation of the Centro Esportivo de Capoeira Angola—CECA, 1940s–1950s
- The codification of Angola style: Pastinha’s teachings
- The struggle to establish the Angola style
- The last years
- Conclusion
- 7 Contemporary capoeira, 1950–2004
- From regional to national: the spread throughout Brazil, 1950s–1970s
- The rebirth of Angola
- ‘Go around the world!’ The globalization of capoeira, 1970s–1990s
- Contemporary styles
- Conclusion: the contemporary meanings of capoeira
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- 1.1 A mulatto capoeira Illustrations
- 2.1 African martial dance and instruments
- 2.2 An old African playing a berimbau
- 2.3 N’golo
- 2.4 Liveta, preliminary phase of n’golo
- 2.5 An Angolan berimbau player
- 2.6 Stick fighting in Dominica
- 2.7 Head-butt combat in Venezuela
- 3.1 ‘Jogar capoëra ou danse de la guerre’
- 3.2 ‘Negros fighting, Brazil’
- 3.3 ‘Negroes which will be flogged’
- 3.4 Central section of Rio de Janeiro, c.1850
- 3.5 Capoeira ginga with sticks
- 3.6 Caricature of capoeiras recruited into the police force
- 3.7 Open-handed blow and a razor attack; kick to the chest; head butt
- 3.8 A Nagoa and a Guaiamú in typical outfits
- 3.9 Sweeping kick (‘Rasteira’)
- 4.1 Townships and parishes in the Bahian Recôncavo in the mid-nineteenth century
- 4.2 Old African porters at a canto, Bahia
- 4.3 Combat games in Salvador, Bahia
- 4.4 Jogo de dentro in the port area of Salvador
- 4.5 City centre of Salvador,
- 4.6 Capoeira rodas in a neighbourhood, Salvador
- 4.7 Capoeira roda in the port area of Salvador
- 4.8 Mestre Juvenal defending against a knife attack from a student
- 4.9 Chamadas: Mestre Juvenal with students in the port area
- 4.10 Mestre Caiçara was one of the last capoeira ‘troublemakers’ in Bahia
- 5.1 Ginga as taught by Mestre Bimba
- 5.2 Acrobatic movements of capoeira Regional
- 5.3 Sequences of capoeira Regional movements
- 5.4 Mestre Bimba with two friends
- 5.5 M.Bimba teaching at the Forte do Barbalho, c.1938.
- 5.6 Mestre Bimba performing the ginga
- 6.1 Mestre Pastinha in
- 6.2 Mestre Pastinha playing berimbau
- 6.3 Mestre Pastinha practising capoeira
- 6.4 Bateria de Capoeira in Pastinha’s academy
- 6.5 Performance by Mestre Pastinha’s group in a Bahian neighbourhood
- 7.1 Street roda in Caxias, Rio de Janeiro , 1970s
- 7.2 Mestre Gato from Senzala, Buzios (Rio de Janeiro), 1970s
- 7.3 Contemporary capoeira, Senzala group, Rio de Janeiro,
- 7.4 High kicks and full contact in contemporary capoeira, Senzala group, Rio de Janeiro,
- 7.5 Mestre Camisa, Rio de Janeiro,
- 7.6 Four generation of mestres: João Grande, Moraes, Cobra Mansa and Rosalvo, Berlin,
July 7.7 Mestres João Pequeno and Cobra Mansa at VII Annual Meeting of FICA, Rio de Janeiro State,
- 7.8 Mestre Pastel, Group Raizes de Rua, London,
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