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Intracultural Dynamics of Capoeira Training in Brazil

Intracultural Dynamics of Capoeira Training in Brazil

Class was in session. I was playing the atabaque drum—a freestanding upright leatherhead drum with a wooden body and a metal stand. To my right was a group of student musicians who, on their respective instruments, were each playing rhythms to accompany the other students performing Capoeira movement. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian form of fight-dancing [...]

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