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Capoeira:the Jogo De angola From Luanda To Cyberspace, Volume Two
[Paperback - 2007]
gerard taylor
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Category: Sports
Sub-category: Martial Arts
Additional Category: World History
Publisher: Blue Snake Books | ISBN: 9781583941836 | Pages: 560
Shipping Weight: .878 | Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.37 x 8.97 inches

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Capoeira evolved as a Brazilian martial art developed initially by that country’s African slaves. Marked by deft, deceptive movements played on the ground or completely inverted, the form started gaining worldwide popularity in the early 20th century, when this second volume of Gerard Taylor’s wide-ranging history begins.

The book opens with a study of the capoeira “Bamba,” Mestre Bimba, who became renowned as a fighting champion in Bahia and opened the first legal academy during the dictatorship of Getulio Vargas. Taylor investigates the dramatic development of the schism that resulted in the competing styles of Regional and Angola. Moving into contemporary capoeira, the author provides an overview of new trends, such as international encounters, long distance “mail-order mestres,” mass membership capoeira associations, cyber-capoeira, and grading systems.

The book features the wisdom of a number of important mestres recounting their experiences teaching capoeira professionally around the world. In frank, inspiring interviews they talk about the highs and lows of the capoeira life, and how its lessons can enrich people’s lives.

Photographs, illustrations, and an extensive glossary of terms illuminate the complex history of this fighting art.

About the Author

Gerard Taylor has been practicing capoeira since the 1980s. In 1996 he received the “formado” grade and co-founded the Oslo Capoeira Klubb the same year. The author of three previous books on the subject, he lives in Norway.

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