Searching for the origins of the Portuguese waltzes

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Includes bibliographical references.Prologue -- Part 1. Questions ; Abel from Caxinas ; Os dancings no morro : the dance halls on the hill ; Ulysses from Vila Praia de Âncora ; Reading Bernardo Santareno and Land of the God -- Part 2. 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"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 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"--