Revision of author thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2012 titled Dancing, fighting, and staging capoeira : choreographies of Afro-Brazilian modernity and tradition. Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-216) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : staging tradition, inventing modernity -- Staging Brazil's national sport : Burlamaqui, Bimba, and Pastinha -- Fighting and dancing : capoeira regional and capoeira angola -- Capoeira for the tourist stage : Bimba and Canjiquinha -- Brazil's folklore for the global stage : authorship, innovation, and spectacle
Summary:
"Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian combat game practiced today throughout the world. Staging Brazil is the first in-depth study of the process of legitimization of capoeira and its globalization as Brazil's national folklore. Using early illustrated capoeira manuals, the book contextualizes the two main styles of capoeira, angola and regional, within discourses of race and nation in mid-twentieth century Brazil and reveals the mutual influences between capoeira practitioners, tourism bureaucrats, intellectuals, artists, and directors of folkloric ensembles."--Back cover.
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