Liza Lim on Smetak & The Spinning World | Soundescapes - Melbourne Recital Centre

Rolha

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“I recall [ethnomusicologist Jason Stanyek’s] evocative descriptions of capoeira… as an inside-out, upside-down spinning world… the ultimate expression of brasilidade (Brazilianness)… played within a roda – the living circle of the group, within which participants spin and wheel in stylized combat… he says the roda is ‘typically conceptualized by capoeiristas as being a kind of world in miniature…’”

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