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Searching for the Origins of the Portuguese Waltzes

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Richard Simas, Irene Maria F. Blayer, Dulce Maria Scott

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-04-30
Mått150 x 225 x 14 mm
Vikt306 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieInterdisciplinary Studies in Diasporas
Antal sidor132
FörlagPeter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN9781636670430

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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.