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Capoeira

By: Colin Harte
In: The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture
Edited by: Janet Sturman
Subject:Sociology of Culture, Social & Cultural Anthropology, Popular Music
Keywords:Angola; capoeira; martial arts; movements

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts and dance and is musically accompanied primarily by the berimbau (a single-string percussive musical bow). Music and dance are inextricably connected in this art form, where it would be quite rare to see the dance ...

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  Harte, C. (2019). Capoeira. In J. Sturman (Ed.), The SAGE international encyclopedia of music and culture (Vol. 1, pp. 472-472). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n142
  
  Harte, Colin. "Capoeira." In The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, edited by Sturman, Janet, 472-472. Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n142.
  
  Harte, C. 2019. Capoeira. In: Janet Sturman Editor, 2019. The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 472 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n142> [Accessed 20 Apr 2021].
  
  Harte, Colin. "Capoeira." The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. Edited by Janet Sturman. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks,: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019, pp. 472-472. SAGE Knowledge. 20 Apr 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n142.
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