TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richard Simas
PY  - 2024
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2378-0975
SN  - 9781636670447
TI  - Searching for the Origins of the Portuguese Waltzes
DO  - 10.3726/b20443
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1290329
N2  - 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.
KW  - Canadian Maritime History, traditional music, Portugal’s cod fishing era, St. John’s Newfoundland
LA  - English
ER  -