Capoeira is a Brazilian art combining instrumental music, song,
dance, martial arts, ritual, theatre, and more. This ensemble
focuses on Capoeira Angola, a traditional style from the
Brazilian Northeast associated with Brazil’s African heritage. In
this ensemble students will learn how to play the instruments of
the capoeira ensemble, sing capoeira songs in Portuguese, basic
techniques of the physical game, and the fundamentals of the
performance.
Course Information
MUS 153
Meets M, W 10–11:50 am in Della Davidson Performance
Studio, Nelson Hall
Ph.D. Ethnomusicology, University of British Columbia
Juan Diego Díaz is an ethnomusicologist with a geographic
research interest in Africa and its diaspora, particularly Brazil
and West Africa. He is interested in how African diasporic musics
circulate and transform across the Atlantic and how they serve
individuals and communities in identity formation. He uses a
variety of approaches including close musical analysis, timeline
theory, groove analysis, phenomenology of the body, and discourse
analysis. He is also a long-term Capoeira Angola practitioner and
has led capoeira and samba ensembles.
