Capoeira in the San Francisco Bay Area

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Abstract: The files here contain interviews with practitioners of capoeira that live in the San Francisco Bay Area. The interviews include the following people: Daniel Mattar is an instructor at FICA Oakland, teaching the Capoeira Angola style. Esther Sebastian and Jomar Barbosa are students of Capoeira Angola style and attend Daniel's training sessions in Sunnyvale, CA. They are visiting from Brazil and have a group that they train with in Sao Paulo (Grupo Nzinga). Mestre Beiçola (actual name Ronaldo de Sa) is a capoeira mestre from Rio de Janeiro and has been teaching capoeira, Afro-Brazilian dance, and percussion in the San Francisco Bay Area for over twenty years. His capoeira school is Capoeira Narahari, based in East Palo Alto, CA. Rahan Boxley is a student of Mestre Beiçola as part of the Capoeira Narahari school. Photos as part of the photo essay pdf file show both the FICA studio in Oakland and the different locations that students of Capoeira Narahari train and practice capoeira in Palo Alto. Photographers are credited where the photo is not of the main author (Megha Makam).

Type of resource	sound recording-nonmusical
Date created	June 2014

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/kj227vz0177

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Music Ethnography of the Bay Area Collection - ARS.0152

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