{"id":2126,"date":"2016-03-04T07:34:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T13:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2019-07-29T16:09:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T21:09:22","slug":"some-new-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=2126","title":{"rendered":"Videos of Maranhao Folk Culture 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Videos on the <em>Bumba-meu-boi<\/em>, and the <em>Festa do S\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alo do Amarante<\/em> and the <em>Festa do Divino<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Bumba-meu-boi<\/em> videos were filmed and edited by Simone Ferro of performances at the June, 2015 celebration in S\u00e3o Lu\u00eds.<\/p>\n<p>This corresponds to our time with a Study Abroad course with dancers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.\u00a0 If some of you were among that group, you may recognize these groups.<\/p>\n<p>The videos are available on Vimeo and at the links below.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bumba-meu-boi Encanto da Ilha (in the rhythmic style known as \u201cOrquestra\u201d)<br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Boi Encanto da Ilha June 2015\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/157727744?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boi Lirio de S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o (also in the Orquestra style, or <em>sotaque<\/em>).<br>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Boi Li\u0301rio de Sa\u0303o Joa\u0303o June 2015\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/157724484?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This following video shows moments of\u00a0 the<em> Festa do S\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alo de Amarante<\/em> and the Celebration of the Divine Spirit (<em>Festa do Divino<\/em>) in Pindar\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>It features the women drummers of Pindar\u00e9 (called <em>caixeiras<\/em>), and especially the group led by \u201cMaria Caixeiras,\u201d a woman whose name carries her identity as a drummer.\u00a0 In one sequence, the drummers of her group are joined by members from the<em> quilombo<\/em> \u201c<em>Communidade Vila Maria<\/em>.\u201d (A <em>quilombo<\/em> is a community or settlement formed by escaped and released slaves, sometimes with some indigenous people as well.\u00a0 Maranh\u00e3o has over 300 such communities.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Maria Caixeiras November 2015\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/157721306?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The post from November 2015 post contains photos and text describing more of these festivals<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming: More posts on the Bumba-meu-boia and a few brief clips from an Umbanda ceremony to Oxum, orix\u00e1 of water.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Videos on the Bumba-meu-boi, and the Festa do S\u00e3o Gon\u00e7alo do Amarante and the Festa do Divino. The Bumba-meu-boi videos were filmed and edited by Simone Ferro of performances at the June, 2015 celebration in S\u00e3o Lu\u00eds. This corresponds to our time with a Study Abroad course with dancers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=2126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Videos of Maranhao Folk Culture 2015<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-folk-culture-and-spiritual-practice-in-maranhao-brazil"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}