A emergência dos estilos modernos de capoeira deve ser considerada no contexto global da modernização de artes marciais em curso na Europa e na Ásia, por um lado, e, por outro, da nova fase da modernidade negra. O confronto, no ringue, da capoeira com o jiu-jítsu e outras lutas levou mestre Bimba a desenvolver sua luta regional baiana. A revitalização da capoeira tradicional como capoeira de Angola, liderada por mestre Pastinha, insere-se no movimento mais amplo de afirmação da cultura afro-baiana em Salvador e da crescente visibilidade do corpo negro no mundo atlântico.
O artigo é baseado em entrevistas feitas com pessoas na sua maioria idosas em vários municípios do nordeste do Maranhão, em 1982. Documenta a memória oral da escravidão de indivíduos e comunidades afrodescendentes e mestiças. Os depoimentos fornecem informações preciosas sobre o trabalho quotidiano, a violência sofrida pelos escravizados e as várias maneiras de resistir aos senhores e feitores. São analisadas algumas categorias-chaves desta memória oral, como a dicotomia entre o "bom" senhor e o "ruim" ou "malvado". O texto destaca algumas singularidades da escravidão dos africanos e de seus descendentes no Maranhão.
Over the last years, British television has shown clips of capoeira almost daily. One of the "idents" used by the British Broadcasting Corporation to advertise multiethnic "Cool Britannia" features capoeira, and is usually broadcast at prime time just before the ten o'clock news. This is just one example of how globalized capoeira has become, and it also demonstrates how much young Brazilians from modest backgrounds and with no formal education can achieve through capoeira. Yet capoeira's very success also entails the danger that the art might become just another commodity marketed by global capitalism. Capoeira is not just a different type of aerobics or flashy acrobatics accompanied by exotic music. It is a multilayered art form of amazing cultural density, with its own worldview and a history closely linked to that of the African Diaspora. The lyrics are central to the capoeira game to stimulate players or to comment on their performance and are thus worth an analysis on their own. Slaves and freed people widely practiced combat games in late colonial and imperial Brazil. Different modalities, known under the generic name capoeira, developed according to both the vicissitudes of the transatlantic and internal slave trades and the local contexts in Para, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, and other regions. Capoeira usually involved some form of mock combat in a circle, the roda (ring), accompanied by instruments, hand clapping, and singing. Whilst friendly games were part of slave and popular diversions, rougher games could end in brawls, injuries, and even death. Throughout the Brazilian Empire (1822-1889), authorities considered that playing capoeira was "unacceptable behavior" requiring immediate correction in the form of whipping and forced labor in the Navy dockyards. The Republican Penal Code (1890) outlawed it together with vagrancy. Repression of the capoeiras,l although brutal, was often unsystematic and inefficient. 2 Where and how did capoeira originate? This is a question twentieth-century practitioners often raised and still discuss with passion since capoeira is paramount to the construction of several identities. Since primary sources referring
This article seeks to explain the breakdown of post-colonial order
in the
northern Brazilian province of Maranhão that culminated in the Balaiada
rebellion (1838–41). Interpretations usually do not take into account
the intense
political agitation of the previous decades, which already involved lower
class
participation, and they fail to recognise the major socio-economic differences
between the areas touched by the revolt. The main arguments are, first,
that the
struggle for Independence in Maranhão, more violent than in most
other
provinces, opened the door to lower class involvement in politics under
liberal
leadership. Secondly, the struggle between local elites for regional power
led to
exclusion of peripheral elites within the province and fuelled lower class
unrest.
Significant moments of rupture between liberal leadership and popular movement
occurred as early as 1823–4 and 1831–2. Thirdly, the main structural
factor
leading to the 1838 outbreak of rebellion was the resistance to military
recruitment by the free lower classes, which provided a unifying slogan
to
otherwise heterogeneous groups of peasants, cowboys, and fishermen. Fourthly,
the differences in social structure between the cattle producing South,
the cotton
plantation belt of the Itapecuru valley and the strong subsistence sector
in Eastern
Maranhão account for substantial differences in terms of support
and leadership
during the Balaiada. Whilst fazendeiros lead the struggle in Southern
Maranhão,
as well as in most of the neighbouring Piauí province, leadership
in Eastern
Maranhão was almost entirely of lower class origin. Finally, the
dynamics of the
movement could lead in Eastern Maranhão to a rupture with elite
liberalism and
envisage the alliance between free rebels and maroons.
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