%0 Book
%A Richard Simas
%D 2024
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 2378-0975
%@ 9781636670447
%T Searching for the Origins of the Portuguese Waltzes
%R 10.3726/b20443
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1290329
%X 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.
%K Canadian Maritime History, traditional music, Portugal’s cod fishing era, St. John’s Newfoundland
%G English