Capoeira contemporânea: compreensões decorrentes de mestres autodeclarados

• Autor(a) principal: Cressoni, Franz Eric de Goes [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/108759
• topic: Capoeira (Dance); Capoeira; Capoeira - História; Educação não-formal; Folclore; Formação profissional

This study had the objective of analyzing capoeira in present days, giving attention to the ruptures and disputes of power with the traditional schools, angola and regional, as professed by their creators, which originated new manifestations that are nowadays present in the social space of capoeira. In this sense, we focused on the phenomenon called capoeira contemporânea, treating both it and capoeira in general as manifestations based on an artisan model and analyzing them through the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu. Therefore, the objectives of this study were to comprehend the phenomenon known by the name of capoeira contemporânea, analyzing: a) the historical context and the social structure which led to a rupture with the traditional schools; b) the relationship between capoeira as it is practiced nowadays with physical education and sports; c) whether or not there is a new school of capoeira which add to the traditional ones. A choice was made for a qualitative research, using a semi structured interview with eight masters who declared themselves to be practitioners of capoeira contemporânea. The interviews showed that, in general, the masters of capoeira contemporânea tend not to consider it to be a school of capoeira, as are the capoeiras angola and regional, since it lacks universal groundings among its practitioners, which Eric Hobsbawm named invented traditions. Still, it has redimensioned both traditional schools as its fundamental pillars, and thus breaking with the existing separation angola/regional. Furthermore, capoeira contemporânea tends to give a freedom to the restructuring of the exercise of capoeira, creating new groundings or adding new characteristics of other practices to the existing ones. We have concluded that capoeira contemporânea constitutes, not a school, but a model of practice based on a movement of transformation in the capoeira medium which breaks with the traditional models of practice, but...