Berimbau
Uploaded: August 01, 2010
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Berimbau
May 30, 2010
The berimbau originated in an early nineteenth-century Brazilian slave culture. Several historical notices and depictions
from this period demonstrate the continued presence of a variety of central African musical bows.
These musical bows were known by African names such as urucungu, madimba lungungo, mbulumbumba, and hungu. Sometime in the late nineteenth century, it received a Lusophone name — berimbau de barriga, or "jaw harp of the stomach"—
and entered a new cultural context, the African-Brazilian martial art form known as capoeira.
Beginning at least as early as the eighteenth century, capoeira was fought to the music of
an African-derived hand drum or to simple handclapping.
Capoeira is now fought to the toques (rhythms) of the berimbau,
which accompany the songs known in Brazil as cantigas de capoeira.
By N. Scott Robinson
www.nscottrobinson.com/berimbau.php
Nikki McDonald
August 01, 2010
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