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==Literature==
==Literature==
* ''Capoeira: Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game'', by Nestor Capoeira, {{ISBN|1-55643-404-9}}.
* {{cite book|title=Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art|last=Assunção|first=Matthias Röhrig|publisher=Routledge|year=2002|isbn=978-0-7146-8086-6|title-link=Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art}}
* {{cite book|title=Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art|last=Assunção|first=Matthias Röhrig|publisher=Routledge|year=2002|isbn=978-0-7146-8086-6|title-link=Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art}}
*{{cite book|title=Capoeira: Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game|last=Capoeira|first=Nestor|publisher=Blue Snake Books|year=2002|isbn=978-1-58394-637-4}}
*{{cite book|title=Capoeira: Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game|last=Capoeira|first=Nestor|publisher=Blue Snake Books|year=2002|isbn=978-1-58394-637-4}}
*{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/trent_0116405595467|url-access=registration|title=The Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance|last=Talmon-Chvaicer|first=Maya|publisher=University of Texas Press|year=2008|isbn=978-0-292-71723-7}}


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 21:27, 3 September 2023

Batuque by Johann Moritz Rugendas, between 1822 and 1825.
Batuque in São Paulo, by NachtmannSpix and Martius (1823-1831)

Batuque (drum[1], drumming[2]) referred various Afro-Brazilian practices in the 19th century, including music, dance and fighting game.

As a dance

Batuque dance was common in Brazil in 19th century.[3]

As a game

Batuque was a game played in Bahia in the early part of the twentieth century by African slaves, which were brought to Brazil, but now extinct.[4] A similar game, pernada, was popular in Rio de Janeiro about the same time. Players stand in a circle; one player stands in the center in a defensive position, and another moves around him, suddenly attacking. The attacking player tries to throw the defending player to the ground with blows from his legs.

Batuque was a combat game of predominantly Angolan origins.[5] In the 1930s the Angolans in Brazil were the champions in batuque, with one of the most renowned practitioners being Angolinha ('little Angola').[5]

Capoeira inovators like Anibal Burlamaqui in Rio de Janeiro and Mestre Bimba, the founder of the regional capoeira style, incorporated numerous batuque techniques.[5] Moreover, Mestre Bimba's father was a champion of batuque.[4] Nestor Capoeira believes that many swipes (rasteiras) introduced by Bimba in the capoeira came from batuque.[6]

Batuque in present

There are efforts to resurrect Batuque (and leg wrestling in general) as a modern sport.[7]

As a religion

Batuque is an old name for Candomblé religion.[8]

Today, batuque is an Afro-Brazilian religion, practiced mainly in Brazil.[9][10][11][12] The Batuque pantheon includes spirits rather than gods, who are mostly thought to come in two types: Catholic saints and encantados (anthropomorphic spirits who "inhabit the tangible world" and mostly come from Brazil, although there are foreigners in their rank).[12] "Spirit possession and mediumship are...integral to Batuque worship."[12]

Literature

  • Assunção, Matthias Röhrig (2002). Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-7146-8086-6.
  • Capoeira, Nestor (2002). Capoeira: Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game. Blue Snake Books. ISBN 978-1-58394-637-4.
  • Talmon-Chvaicer, Maya (2008). The Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-71723-7.

References

  1. ^ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/batuque
  2. ^ https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-27078-4_537
  3. ^ Talmon-Chvaicer 2008, pp. 8.
  4. ^ a b Gerard Taylor, Capoeira: The Jogo de Angola from Luanda to Cyberspace, Volumen 2
  5. ^ a b c Assunção 2002, pp. 66.
  6. ^ Capoeira 2002, pp. 196.
  7. ^ "batuque".
  8. ^ What Is Candomblé? Beliefs and History
  9. ^ Frigerio, Alejandro (2013-01-01). Umbanda and Batuque in the Southern Cone: Transnationalization as Cross-Border Religious Flow and as Social Field. Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004246034_008. ISBN 978-90-04-24603-4.
  10. ^ Pinn, Anthony B.; Finley, Stephen C.; Alexander, Torin (2009). African American Religious Cultures. ABC-CLIO. pp. 104–107. ISBN 978-1-57607-470-1.
  11. ^ Leacock, Seth (1964). "Ceremonial Drinking in an Afro-Brazilian Cult". American Anthropologist. 66 (2): 344–354. ISSN 0002-7294.
  12. ^ a b c Salamone, Frank A. (2004). Levinson, David (ed.). Encyclopedia of Religious Rites, Rituals, and Festivals. New York: Routledge. p. 19. ISBN 0-415-94180-6.