Capoeira weaves fighting, music, dance, prayer, and ritual into an urgent strategy by which people live, struggle, celebrate, and survive together. In this book Bira Almeida--or Mestre Acordeon as he is respectfully called in capoeira circles--documents his own tradition with both the panoramic eye of the historian and the passionate heart of the ...
This is the definitive text on the Afro-Brazilian art of Capoeira, the mix of martial arts, dance, and all-around approach to life. Written by one of the world's foremost Capoeira masters, the book provides fascinating historical information, as well as the author's own profound, mysterious, and magical experience with the art form.
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