Richard Simas

Searching for the Origins of the Portuguese Waltzes (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781636670454
• Artikelnr.: 70457712

Autorenporträt

Richard Simas, a freelance writer with a background in literature, music, and the performing arts, publishes regularly in contemporary art and literary reviews. His book The Mystery of the Portuguese Waltzes was published in 2019 and was a finalist in the 2020 Indie Publisher Awards.

Inhaltsangabe

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.