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Full Description
Searching for the Origins of the Portuguese Waltzes is a collection of narratives depicting a six-year quest to discover the roots of a piece of traditional music played in St. John's, Newfoundland: the Portuguese Waltzes. Through interviews, research, and observations, author Richard Simas explores the relationship between Portuguese bacalhoeiros (cod fishermen) and the population of St. John's during the recent cod-fishing era (approximately 1950 to 1980). Memory, and its varying interpretation among different communities, is a major underlying theme. Above all, though, this is a book about music, shared, invented, and improvised, underscoring the power of melody to capture and conserve emotional memory across the Atlantic.
Contents
Acknowledgments - Intentions, Artistic Collaborator Helena Flores, Photographer - Prologue - Questions - Abel from Caxinas - Os Dancings no Morro: The Dance Halls on the Hill - Ulysses from Vila Praia de ncora - Reading Bernardo Santareno and Land of the Cod - The Women - José da Conceição, Ship Deserter - Mestre Gabriel, Mestre Clemente from Praia de Mira - Jaime Pontes, Cod Fisherman, Raconteur - Many Manuel da Silvas/A Violin in the Attic - Afterword - List of Figures - Notes and Works Cited - Permissions.