Brazil: Capoeira de Angola

Recorded 1980 outside Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Unnamed capoeira group
Capoeira is a combination of martial art, dance performance, and sport.

Sung in rural northeastern Portuguese dialect accompanied by musical bows, tambourine, drum, hand clapping.

From JVC/Smithsonian Video Anthology of Music & Dance of thw Americas Disc 5

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