Coleção Capoeira Viva : 5 PDF books

Coleção Capoeira Viva : 5 PDF books

The following publications are part of the “Capoeira Viva Collection” (click on the title to download it for free)

Volume 1 – A história de Juma, o capoeira

Volume 2 – É Preta, Kalunga: a Capoeira Angola como prática política entre os angoleiros baianos — anos 80-90

Volume 3 – Pensando a Capoeira: dimensões e perspectivas

Volume 4 – A capoeira em Salvador: registro de mestres e instituições

Volume 5 – Capoeira Angola: ensaio socioetnográfico

The collection consists of five books, which are the works of professors at the Federal University of Bahia, Pedro Abib and Rosângela Araújo; a collection of academic articles on Capoeira; the reissue of the book Capoeira Angola - Ensaio Socioetnográfico, by Waldeloir Rego; and the last volume is a record of Salvador's capoeira groups and institutions.

The Capoeira Viva program is designed by the Ministry of Culture (MinC), promoted by the Gregório de Mattos Foundation and sponsored by Petrobras.

Capoeira Viva Program - Launched by MinC in 2007, the Capoeira Viva announcement was nationwide and made available the amount of R $ 1,708,532.81, of which R $ 1.2 million was allocated to the payment of prizes.

Among the actions carried out, we highlight the launch of the two series of CDs Capoeira Viva, which made it possible to record the musical production developed in the capoeira scenario. The first edition, carried out in 2010, released songs composed by institutions nationwide, operating in places such as São Paulo, Pernambuco, Recôncavo da Bahia, Ilhéus, Salvador and Goiás. The second edition was launched in 2014, with songs by groups from Salvador. .

In addition, FGM promoted two editions of the Capoeira Viva Meeting in 2013 and 2015, bringing together authorities and personalities to discuss the universe of cultural manifestation in Salvador. The first edition of the event featured cultural workshops that related capoeira to other artistic languages, such as plastic arts, electronic media and video. This year, the focus was on the professional improvement of participants, bringing knowledge to the market and legal advice to institutions.

In 2007, the program also launched a call for financial support for unprecedented research projects aimed at cultural expression. In all, 1286 projects were registered, resulting from 23 states, and 122 proposals were awarded.

In January this year, the Edital Capoeira Viva 2015 was launched, with the objective of rewarding Salvador's projects aimed at valuing, promoting, disseminating, registering and strengthening the event as a constituent asset of Brazilian cultural heritage. In all, 10 proposals were considered, divided into the categories Interchange, Preservation and Memory and Inclusion, which received the amount of R $ 15 thousand each, totaling the amount made available of R $ 150 thousand.

CAPOEIRA VIVA BOOK COLLECTION:

The Story of Juma, O Capoeira - Author Pedro Abib

Paulista from Mogi das Cruzes and resident in Salvador since 1993, Pedro Abib is a Capoeira Angola practitioner, being a disciple of Mestre João Pequeno for 20 years. He is a professor at the Faculty of Education at UFBA, coordinator of the Griô Research Group, as well as a writer, samba player, composer and filmmaker.

Inspired by his experience, the author wrote the children's book that tells the story of Juma, a black man brought from Africa when he was still a child, through a slave ship, where he lost his mother. Here he was enslaved, fled to Palmares and became a slave once again in Santo Amaro, escaping to Serra da Barriga. He learned to play capoeira by watching N'Golo, a zebra dance in Africa, which gave him strategies on his escape routes. When he was free in Salvador, he met Mestre Bimba at Mercado Modelo and a capoeirista professor who took him to speak with students at a university.

É Preta, Kalunga: Capoeira Angola as a political practice among Angolans from Bahia - Years 80-90 - Author: Rosângela Costa Araújo

Written by the capoeira master, PhD in Education from the University of São Paulo (USP) and professor at UFBA, Rosângela Costa Araújo, or Mestra Janja, the book brings important reflections on capoeira as a complex form of knowledge, which has basic components in relationships between teachers and disciples and in the experience between groups. It makes an analysis inserted in the context of the Historic Center of Salvador in the 80s and uses documentary sources and reports that join the author's experience as a capoeirista and researcher.

Thinking Capoeira - Organizers Franciane Simplício and Alex Pochat

The book brings together 10 studies in the form of academic articles in the Capoeira area, involving topics such as religiosity, education, gender, history, tradition, among others. It aims to disseminate the academic production of young professors and student researchers from the five regions of the country, with an emphasis on the Northeast, and proposes to be a bibliographic reference for those who wish to study the cultural manifestation, contributing to its study in a critical and systematic.

Franciane Simplício has a master's degree in Education from UFBA and coordinates the actions of the Capoeira Viva program. She produces and coordinates projects in Brazil and abroad. Alex Pochat is a composer, interpreter, cultural producer and doctoral student in Composition at UFBA. He is a founding member of the Civil Association Oficina de Composition Agora (OCA) and the Brazilian Association of Music Theory and Analysis (TeMA).

Capoeira Angola - Socioetnographic Essay - Author Waldeloir Rêgo

 Second edition of the work, one of the most comprehensive research in the capoeira universe. The first edition was launched in 1968, and has not been in circulation in the market for a long time, but it is still an important source for researchers in the area. It was written by the professor, researcher, writer, ethnologist, folklorist, plastic artist, jewelry designer and Ogã do Ilê Axé Opó Afonjá, Waldeloir Rêgo (1930-2001).

It presents a rich inventory of capoeira with rich stories about the arrival of slaves in Brazil, the flows of blacks brought to Portugal from 1441, as well as the presence of blacks in Brazilian territory through the slave trade; the relentless search for the origin of capoeira; the game of capoeira and its nuances; the musical instruments that make up the capoeira circle; among other topics.

Capoeira in Salvador - Registration of Masters and Institutions - Organizers Franciane Simplício, Alex Pochat and Nágila Diacuí

Catalog containing information about the capoeira institutions in Salvador, such as location, responsible masters and contacts, which allows building a real diagnosis about the extent of the cultural manifestation in the city. The work is the result of a public call made by the Gregório de Mattos Foundation to the capoeira community, in order to invite them to register their institutions and provide data that can help guide new actions to encourage and safeguard capoeira, especially within public policies.

Nágila Diacuí is an environmental manager specialized in Management and Development of Socio-environmental and Cultural Projects by the State University of Feira de Santana (Uefs). She has experience in the design and execution of environmental education, art education and culture projects.

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