Staging Brazil : Choreographies of Capoeira /

Staging Brazil: Choreographies of Capoeira is the first in-depth study of the processes of legitimization and globalization of capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian combat game practiced today throughout the world. Ana Paula Höfling contextualizes the emergence of the two main styles of capoeira, angola and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Höfling, Ana Paula (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Capoeira (Dance) > Social aspects > Brazil > History > 20th century.
Martial arts > Brazil > History > 20th century.
Capoeira (Dance) > History > 20th century.
Brazil > Civilization > African influences.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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