The cockerel has crowed! The history of capoeira in Rio de Janeiro in verse and song
By Matthias Röhrig Assuncão. Capoeira songs – ladainha, quadra, louvação or corrido – have always…
The Diaspora of Rio de Janeiro’s capoeiras during the First Republic: the case of São Paulo
Por Pedro Cunha When we think of the historical process by which capoeira developed, we…
Prata Preta: an exiled capoeira
By KK Bonates – Luiz Carlos de Matos Bonates On 10 November 1904, a series…
Thoughts on Capoeira in Present Time
Luiz Renato Vieira Since the beginning of the 20th century, historians have discussed whether the…
Master Sinhozinho
Marcelo Backes Navarro Stotz (Mestre K.B.Lera) Agenor Moreira Sampaio (Sinhozinho) was born in 1891. He…
The Letters: Neves e Sousa, Câmara Cascudo and the Engolo Myth
By Ricardo Nascimento and Cinézio Peçanha For the majority of capoeira practitioners, as for the…
An Old Attack on UK capoeira
Sara Delamont, Cardiff University The UK has a ‘free’ Radio and TV service provided by…
Anníbal Burlamaqui, customs officer and poet; Zuma, capoeira and boxeur (1898-1965)
By Ana Paula Höfling, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. On August 18, 1965, the Jornal…
Master Zé Pedro
Por: Jorge Felipe Columá, PhD in Physical Education and Culture Thiago de Paula dos Anjos…
Capoeira, the transnational dialogue of bodies in motion
By Daniel Granada [ads-pullquote-left]”Once the African-Brazilian martial art called capoeira was distant. Now it’s right…