scholarly journals Stanzas and Sticks: Poetic and Physical Challenges in the Afro-Brazilian Culture of the Paraiba Valley, Rio de Janeiro

2014 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-136
Author(s):  
M. R. Assuncao
Author(s):  
Matthias Röhrig Assunção

Capoeira is a martial art that developed from combat games enslaved Africans brought to Brazil. It is systematically documented since the beginning of the 19th century in Rio de Janeiro and later in other port cities. During the 19th century capoeira was increasingly practiced by the poor free people, black and of mixed ancestry, and also by white immigrants. Capoeira gangs controlled their territories against intruders and allied with political parties until the Republican purge of 1890. Capoeira survived best in Bahia, where it remained more associated with other forms of Afro-Brazilian culture and acquired many of its features still extant in present-day capoeira. From the 1930s onward, capoeira masters such as Bimba and Pastinha modernized capoeira, leading to the emergence of the Regional and Angola styles. Bahian capoeiristas migrated to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo in search of better opportunities during the 1950–1970s. There they and their students developed what later became known as “Contemporary capoeira” (Capoeira Contemporânea) which is the most practiced style today. Capoeira was and is practiced in various ways: as a friendly game or as a fight, as a combat sport, or as an Afro-Brazilian cultural activity. Since the 1980s, capoeira has undergone a process of globalization and is now practiced in many countries around the world. Capoeira is the only martial art of the African Diaspora that is known and practiced worldwide. Writing on Capoeira has rapidly grown in a number of disciplines, leading to the constitution of its own interdisciplinary field of study.


1998 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Kenneth Maxwell ◽  
Henrik Kraay ◽  
B. J. Barickman ◽  
Pierre Verger ◽  
Kim D. Butler

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mário de Andrade

Abstract “The music of sorcery in Brazil” was given as a lecture by Mário de Andrade to the Brazilian Music Association (Associação Brasileira de Música), in Rio de Janeiro, in 1933. The author never managed to complete its revision for publication. This was undertaken by Oneyda Alvarenga, who published the text of the lecture and a series of related documents in Volume XIII - Música de Feitiçaria no Brasil-of the Complete Works of Mário de Andrade (Editora Itatiaia/Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1983, p.23-70). The author is in search for the role of music, with its distinctive rhythms and melodic form, in the mystical trance of Afro-Brazilian religions. The text combines the flavour of his direct research experience in the catimbó of the Brazilian Northeast; his erudite bibliographical studies that were strongly influenced by evolutionary and diffusionist anthropology at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the twentieth; and an analysis of the music of macumba in the Rio de Janeiro around the 1930s as found in the recordings that Andrade so much enjoyed collecting and listening to.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
Elaine Da Silveira Ribeiro FERRARESE ◽  
Tamires Da Silva OLIVEIRA

RESUMOO objetivo do trabalho é inscrever os enfrentamentos para implementação de um projeto interdisciplinar em escola pública periférica, sobre a cultura afro-brasileira. Justifica-se a partir de evidências cotidianas e estatísticas onde os sujeitos negros são “invisibilizados” nas narrativas que compõem a identidade nacional brasileira. Pelas narrativas das professoras envolvidas no projeto, buscou-se problematizar, contextualizar e refletir a partir de bibliografia majoritariamente negra, as crises e dramas do cotidiano escolar específicos ao recorte racial. Considera-se que professoras e professores necessitam fazer voz para que a prática de enaltecer a pluralidade de existências e a luta do povo negro no Brasil ocorra não apenas em datas específicas, mas ao longo de todo o ano letivo.Consciência negra. Racismo. Escola. Narrativas. Projeto interdisciplinar. ABSTRACTThe work objective is to register the confrontations for the implementation of an interdisciplinary project in a peripheral public school, about Afro-Brazilian culture. It is justified based on daily evidence and statistics where black people are “invisible” in the narratives that make up the Brazilian national identity. Through the narratives of the teachers involved in the project, we sought to problematize, contextualize, and reflect from a mostly black bibliography, such as crises and dramas of the school routine specifics to the racial profile. It is considered that qualified teachers need to make a voice so that the practice of extolling the plurality of existences and the struggle of the black people in Brazil occurs not only on specific dates, but throughout the school year.Black awareness. Racism. School. Narratives. Interdisciplinary project. RESUMENEl objetivo del trabajo es registrar los enfrentamientos para la implementación de un proyecto interdisciplinario en una escuela pública periférica, sobre la cultura afrobrasileña. Se justifica con base en evidencias y estadísticas diarias donde los sujetos negros son “invisibilizados” en las narrativas que conforman la identidad nacional brasileña. A través de las narrativas de las docentes involucradas en el proyecto, se buscó problematizar, contextualizar y reflexionar desde una bibliografía mayoritariamente negra, las crisis y dramas de la rutina escolar propios del contorno racial. Se considera que las profesoras y los profesores necesitan hacer una voz para que la práctica de ensalzar la pluralidad de existencias y la lucha del pueblo negro en Brasil ocurra no solo en fechas específicas, sino durante todo el año escolar.Conciencia negra. Racismo. Escuela. Narrativas. proyecto interdisciplinario. SOMMARIOL'obiettivo del lavoro è registrare i confronti per l'attuazione di un progetto interdisciplinare in una scuola pubblica periferica, sulla cultura afro-brasiliana. È giustificato sulla base di prove e statistiche quotidiane in cui i soggetti neri sono "invisibili" nelle narrazioni che compongono l'identità nazionale brasiliana. Attraverso le narrazioni dei docenti coinvolti nel progetto si è cercato di problematizzare, contestualizzare e riflettere da una bibliografia prevalentemente nera, le crisi e i drammi della routine scolastica tipica del profilo razziale. Si ritiene che gli insegnanti e le insegnanti debbano farsi una voce in modo che la pratica di esaltare la pluralità delle esistenze e la lotta dei neri in Brasile avvenga non solo in date specifiche, ma durante l'intero anno scolastico.Coscienza nera. Razzismo. Scuola. Narrazioni. progetto interdisciplinare. 


Author(s):  
Jeffrey D. Needell

The Introduction lays out the past and recent historiography to explain the necessity for this book, emphasizing its focus on parliamentary history (poorly understood and generally ignored over the past fifty years), Afro-Brazilian mobilization (here restored to its primacy in the origins and constitution of the movement), and Rio de Janeiro (cockpit of imperial politics). It also emphasizes the importance of understanding the movement’s history chronologically, as something born of the interactions between itself and parliament, the monarch, and the Afro-Brazilian middle class and masses in Rio over time. Finally, it provides a brief account of the contents of each chapter


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