CAPOEIRA: THE JOGO DE ANGOLA FROM LUANDA TO CYBERSPACE
ISBN: 978-1-55643-601-7
Editorial: NORTH ATLANTIC BOOKS
Sinopsis: Arising from some of the worst conditions of oppression ever recorder, capoeira is a Brazilian martial art uniquely grounded in the struggle for survival, freedom, and self-determination. In a New World that denied the humanity of people slaving on plantations, in mines, an on the docks of Brazils mercantile centers, capoeira became a powerful act of rebellion with punishment so server, it often resulted in death.
The Jogo de Angola from Luanda to Cyberspace, Volume One chronicles the events that shaped colonial Brazil and created a fighting art founded on central African martial traditions. By tracing capoeiras development into a clandestine means of physical and mental conditioning, the author illuminates the history behind its movements and structure. Volume Two will detail capoeiras transition into Brazils national sport and its explosive growth worldwide.
Read this book carefully, because I see that the writer did not have the pretension to be just a manufacturer of capoeira books. He has made this book because he felt the need, and carried out the research, so that he is able to convey some things related to the history of capoeira. It is not fiction. This book is for real.
– Mestre Sombra, Associaçao de Capoeira Senzala de Santos
The Jogo de Angola is fresh, original, well-balanced, and very thoroughly researched. A fascinating must-read for all interested in capoeira and African-Brazilian history.
– Mestre Sylvia Bazzarelli, The London School of Capoeira Herança
I recommend Gerald Taylors work. I think his research is important for capoeira and will interest capoeira readers.
– Nestor Capoeira, author of The Little Capoeira Book and Capoeira: Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game
After training at The London School of Capoeira for over seven years, Gerard Taylor co-founded the Oslo Capoeira Klubb in Norway. His second book, Capoeira Conditioning, is a whole-body training manual that will be published by Blue Snake Books in late 2005.
CONTENTS
Table of Illustrations
Permissions
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Time Line
Chapter One
IN THE BEGINNING
Mandinga Gold Merchants
Islams African Slaves
The Route of All Evil
The Colonial Era
Mwene Puto
The rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production
The land of the true cross
The line of Tordesillas
The triangular trade
Chapter Two
SUGAR BLUES
Capture and the March to the Coast
Angolan Kilombos
A Cruel Era
Engenhos
Cutting the Cane
Barreado Sugar
Soca
Chapter Three
THE RISE OF THE QUILOMBO DOS PALMARES
The Dutch West India Company
Palmares
Imbangala
Laws of the Jaga
The Art of Deception: Kiluvia
Macaco
Caapuera
Inside the Quilombo dos Palmares
King of Congo
Kings Ganga Zumba and Zumbi dos Palmares
Johan Mauritz of Nassau and Sao Jorge
Overflowing with slaves for sale
Rubbish heap of Portugal
The War against Palmares
Imbangala Warriors
Santo Antônio é Protetor
Moradores
Bandeirantes
The End of an Era and the Birth of a Legend
Chapter Four
THE GOLD RUSH
Gold Mining
Tight Packing and the Middle Passage
Chapter Five
FROM RIO TO THE GOLD MINES
Extracting the Gold
Africans and Amerindians in Quilombos
Cowboys, Indians, and Slaves
Amerindian and African Religious Cults in Quilombos
Crime and Punishment
Women in Colonial Brazil
Chapter Six
BRAZILIAN BANTU LAND
Ngolo, the Dance of the Zebra
The Bantu People
Agogò
Chapter Seven
ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN WEST AFRICA
Mandinga Magic
Gold Coast, Slave Coast, Fanti, and Ashanti
Islamic Jihad
Unannounced and Unplanned
The Sokoto Caliphate
Islam in Salvador, Bahia
Yoruba Culture in Bahia
Islam, the Fall of Old Oyo, and the Rise of Dahomey
Jeje and Nago
Chapter Eight
THE ST. DOMINGUE REVOLUTION
The Rights of Man
Fera Spreads to the USA and Brazil
Abolition
Engenho Santana
We shall be able to play, relax and sing any time we wish
Work Songs
Batuques are forbidden
Witchcraft and Feitiçaria
Sedan Chair Porters
Bad Night in Bahia: The 1835 Uprising
Chapter Nine
AN AWFUL LOT OF COFFE (AND CAPOEIRA) IN BRAZIL
Vadiagem
United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algarves
Capoeiras, Spies, and Conspiracies
Fear and Loathing in Rio de Janeiro
Coffee and Capoeira
Neither man nor his land rested
Rio Coffee Carriers
Chapter Ten
O BERIMBAU
O berimbau é o instrumento principal e indispensável
Hundreds of Years of Tradition
Atabaques
Custom of the Black People
Nobody trusts you if you keep visiting around
Orixá
Berimbau batu, angoleiro me chamou
The San Hunting Bow
Caxixi
Negroes fighting with their open hands
Berimbau in Capoeira
Signs, Crosses, Circles, Rodas
A canoa virou marinheiro, e no fundo do mar tem dinheiro
Look our sister, how you walk on the cross / Your foot might slipo and your soul get lost
Chapter Eleven
THE EMPIRE OF BRAZIL
Major Nunes Vidigal
There remains in the imperial palace but one silver spoon
Cops and Capoeiristas
Paraguay
Paraná e, Paraná e, Paraná
Club and Rope Impressment
Capangagem
Nagoa and Guayamu
A capoeirista
with odd gait
Malta Slang Names
A special crime and punished with new penalties
Rio de Janeiro Quilombos
The Beginning of the End of Empire
Abolition and the Brazilian Republic
The Law of the Free Womb
La Belle Époque
Scientific Racism
In the pulverization of the earth, ther was a long groan
The Empire Strikes Back
Santos
Deodoro da Fonseca
Slavery is declared abolished in Brazil
Chapter Twelve
THE REPUBLIC
Vadiagem and Bens do Evento
The exercise of agility and corporal dexterity known by the term capoeiragem
Old Portuguese Bantu-Land
Bahia and the End of the Beginning
Yoruba Magic
Besouro Mangangá
Besouro quando morreu/Abriu a boca e falo/Adeus
Maracangalha/Qui é terra de matado
Lampiao
The art form was slowly extinguished in Rio and Recife, leaving capoeira only in Bahia
National representative symbol
Bahia de todos os santos, Bahia dos orixas, Bahia de Menininha
Menininha do Gantois
Appendices A-D
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Autor…