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Listen to the song interpreted by Mestre Marcelo Caveirinha
*Mandingueiro: "refer[ ]s to capoeiristas that are very expressive in their game and know how to embellish their game with beautiful and impressive gestures...When a capoeirista is reffered to as being a “mandingueiro”... [i]t implies that one is experienced and mature with a good sense of humor and yet dangerous and not to be fooled by the appearances..." Read more about Mandinga here: http://mandinga.org/capoeira/mandinga/
*Quilombo: is the name given to cities created by runaway slaves in the impenetrable wilderness. The most famous of these cities is known as Quilombo dos Palmares, which rose in the 1630s and fought off several attacks by the Portuguese and the Dutch. "Abandoning the quilombo to evade the enemy by disappearing farther into the forest was a favourite strategy of the palmarinos. There were no fronts or set battle lines, but fluid and sporadic combat over an extensive area. Sabotage, booby traps, attacks against supply lines, and the use of spies in the settlements and plantations nearest Palmares were all regularly applied tactics. Fighting fugitives who lived in quilombos was a very dangerous operation." Excerpt from Taylor, Gerard, Capoeira: The Jogo de Angola from Luanda to Cyberspace (2005), pp. 87-88. *Senzala: refers to the slave quarters in the plantations.
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