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Manufacturer: Blue Snake Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 793.31981
EAN: 9781583942550
ISBN: 1583942556
Label: Blue Snake Books
Manufacturer: Blue Snake Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 136
Publication Date: 2008-10-21
Publisher: Blue Snake Books
Release Date: 2008-10-21
Studio: Blue Snake Books
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Until recently, Brazilians dominated the market on capoeira books, yet the form has spread across the globe over the last four decades. This expansion from the favellas (slums) to the world stage has introduced a host of new capoeira practitioners with varied lineages, techniques, and traditions. In Capoeira Beyond Brazil, Aniefre Essien brings an international, political perspective to capoeira, speaking to both the novice and aficionado, as well as to historians, martial artists, social justice organizers, and youth development professionals.
Essien shows capoeira in its complete historical context, providing not only technical instruction but a critical history that highlights the political milestones of the form. Author Essien doesn’t shy away from the realities of the capoeira community, directly illustrating principles that should be embraced, as well as established norms in practice and instruction worth questioning.
Capoeira Beyond Brazil expands the meaning of capoeira with a sociocultural consideration of the effects internalization has had on the form. Showcasing Essien’s own experiences using capoeira training at-risk youth, the book articulates the form’s empowering aspects with strategies for using martial arts to foster individual self-reliance and confidence, as well as a commitment to community development.
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Summary: Insightful and Inspiring
Comment: Aniefre Essien, or "Tartaruga" paints a very unique picture of Capoeira as an an artform and community in his new book, Capoeira Beyond Brazil. While most of the other Capoeira books on the market are written by native Brazilians who grew up playing Capoeira in Brazil, their perspectives can be very difficult for non-native capoeiristas to understand as the artform clearly has a much different role in their society. Tartaruga, on the other hand, is an American who stumbled into the art much in the same way many other Americans did. He quickly moved up through the ranks, to where he currently stands as Professor for the group Raizes do Brasil. This book tells his perspective, as an advanced American-born Capoeirista, who started a Capoeira school and worked extensively with at-risk youth in Oakland.
While identifying many of the basic tenets of Capoeira that one expects from a serious Capoeira book, (history, etc) Tartaruga goes a step further and explains intangibles like "Malicia," "stealing time" or "Mandinga" in chapters like "Attitude and Etiquette' in the Roda or "Philosophies of Capoeira." As a beginner Capoerista, these chapters were very helpful to me in expanding my "Capoeira Vocabulary" and complementing all the physical training I suffer through.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Essien tells the story of many individual American capoeirstas in the Oakland area, both through interviews and short profile/stories. These touching and compelling stories explain how Capoeira can become such a birght source of light in dark lives, similar, in many ways, to as it was in slave times. These stories serve as both a source of inspiration and a beacon of hope, for anyone, Capoerista or not, American-born or from Brazil.
This book is an absolute must read for any Capoerista at any level, particularly for any non-Brazillian Capoerista trying to understand the role Capoeira can and should have in his or her life and community. The book is easy to read, well written, and incredibly inspiring. It also makes you a better Capoeirsta.
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