Capoeira: Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game by Nestor Capoeira

Author:Nestor Capoeira [Capoeira, Nestor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sports & Recreation, Martial Arts, General, history, Latin America, South America, reference
ISBN: 9781583946374
Google: mBW0ywmtmpAC
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2012-09-04T23:43:53.140701+00:00

Conclusion

Now that we have some information on the “underground period,” let’s propose a different version from the one saying that “after the abolition of slavery, ex-slaves who practiced capoeira did not find a place in society and became outlaws and took capoeira to the underworld. As a result capoeira was forbidden by law.”

Instead, it’s likely that the underground period, characterized by the constant police persecutions, began much earlier than the abolition of slavery (1888) and the official interdiction in the first penal code of the Republic (1892).

This phase began at least with the appointment of Major Vidigal as Chief of Police (1809) and the first edicts (1814) pursuing all black social and cultural manifestations.

I am also claiming that things happened very differently in Rio, Salvador, and Recife.

• In Recife, the moleques de banda de música (music band brats) were exterminated around 1912.

• In Rio, the maltas (street gangs) interacting with politicians of all different parties start to be violently persecuted and exterminated under the new Republic (1890). They left behind only a few individual outcast malandros who knew and used some capoeira fighting techniques. Nevertheless, this malandro type becomes an important feature in Rio’s and Brazil’s imagery.

• In Bahia, most strongly in its capital city Salvador, capoeira has a “special and subtle link with religion.” The capoeirista as an individual is also persecuted, but gangs per se did not exist. Bahia’s capoeira survives this period while Rio’s and Recife’s are exterminated.

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