114 Revista Capoeira, No. 1 (1998), p. 32.
115 For reports about capoeira in London, see The Times, 4.12.1993, The Guardian, 24.11.1995, The Sunday Times,
15.3.1998.
116 O Globo, 20.3.2001.
117 Jornal Muzenza, II (1996), No. 15, p. 9.
118 Praticando Capoeira, II, No. 17, p. 40.
119 Revista Capoeira, II, No. 5, p. 36.
120 Iê! Le journal bimestriel de la Capoeira en Europe, 3 (1996), p. 2; Revista Capoeira, Vol. I, No. 2 (1998), p. 32.
121 Interview with M.Acordeon (Bira Almeida), http://www.capoeira.bz/articles/revista.html (accessed 27.01.0).
122 This was the topic of an intense discussion at the annual encounter of the International Capoeira Angola
Foundation—FICA Prince-William Park, Virginia, USA, in July 2002.
123 Talk by M.Gil Velho, Capoeira Meeting Hamburg, 25.7.2001.
124 T.J.Desch-Obi, Combat and the Crossing of the Kalunga’, in L.M.Heywood (ed.), Central Africans and Cultural
Transformations in the American Diaspora (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 358, 370.
125 D.Pountain and D.Robins, ‘Cool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude’, Cool Moves, 39 (1999–2000), p. 8.
126 Idem, p. 8.
127 Village Voice, 23 May 2000, p. 76.
128 D.Hebdige, Subculture. The Meardng of Styk (London: Routledge, 1979), pp. 73, 92, 133.
129 C.Sena, Capoeira percurso (Salvador: Senavox, 1990), p. 20.
130 C.Sena, ‘Capoeira, arte marcial brasileira. Ante-projeto de regulamentação’, Cadernos de Cultura, No. 3
(Salvador, 1980), p. 19.
131 Another mestre usually credited with writing that draft is M.Mendonça from Rio. See Praticando Capoeira, Vol.
I, No. 8, p. 28.
132 Jornal do Brasil, 5.3.1961; W.Rego, Capoeira Angola. Ensaio sócio-etnográfico (Salvador: Itapuã, 1968), p. 289.
133 For an assessment of Carlos Sena, see also Downey, ‘Incorporating capoeira’, pp. 413–17.
134 Anísio Felix, Bahia, prá começo de conversa (Salvador: n.p., 1982).
135 The details are told by Rego, Capoeira Angola, pp. 39–42.
136 A.Moreira (ed.), Canjiquinha, alegria da capoeira (Salvador: A Rasteira, 1989), pp. 23, 33, 40, 41, 63.
137 Moreira, Canjiquinha, p. 20.
138 F.Abreu and G.Downey, Como eu penso. Reflexões do Mestre Pastinha (Salvador: typed manuscript, 1994) p. 14;
Interview with João Grande, Praticando Capoeira, Vol. I, No. 9, p. 21.
139 Moreira, Canjiquinha, p. 81.
140 Several of Bimba’s pupils and other mestres claim to have introduced the graduation system using belts.
141 J.L.Lewis, Ring of Liberation. Deceptive Discourse in Brazilian Capoeira (Chicago, IL: Chicago University
Press, 1992), p. 64.
142 Praticando Capoeira, No. 6, pp. 41–2.
143 Praticando Capoeira, No. 6, p. 40.
144 ‘Capoeira’, Negro 100 por cento, Vol. I, No. 1, pp. 11–12.
145 On that occasion the group Abadá was accused to be responsible. André Lacé Lopes pointed out that although
Abadá organized the event, both the victim and the perpetrator of the fatal incident belonged to other groups.
This author interpreted the whole episode as a ‘growth crisis’ of capoeira. Lopes, A volta do mundo, pp. 141–4,
215.
146 For different viewpoints on violence in capoeira, see the internet discussion reproduced in J.Capoeira,
Capoeir@internet (Sydney: author’s edition, 1999).
147 Revista Capoeira, No. 2 (1998), p. 35.
148 Lopes, A volta do mundo, pp. 103, 105.
149 Revista Capoeira, No. 5, pp. 36–9.
150 Praticando Capoeira, No. 5, p. 43.
151 C.Barbieri (org.), Capoeira nos JEBs (Brasília: CIDOCA, 1993).244 NOTES