Peter Narváez
Biographic Data
| ID | 700502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Narváez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Narváez |
| SIGNATURE | NARVÁEZ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Folklore and Marginality
Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture
Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folkore and Popular Culture
Introduction: Folklore in Canada
Introduction:Folklore in Canada Pauline Greenhill (bio) and Peter Narváez (bio) In the introduction and afterword to this special issue of the Journal of American Folklore on Canada, we refer to several kinds of "stories we tell about ourselves" (see Geertz 1973:448). There are stories that Canadian folklorists have told about ourselves-and an indication of what new versions of those stories might look like. There are stories that American folklo…
Afterword: The Journal of American Folklore and Americanist versus Canadianist Traditions
IT SEEMS REMARKABLE, GIVEN THEIR relative paucity in recent issues of JAF, that Canadian materials, and to an extent Canadian or Canadian-based researchers, were pivotal to the American Folklore Society's early years. Cross-border intellectual activity has al- ways been significant both in American folkloristics and Canadian folklore/ethnology. The work of Edward D. Ives in the northeast exemplifies this tendency among Ameri- can scholars. Howeve…
I Think I Wrote a Folksong: Popularity and Regional Vernacular Anthems
The popularity of vernacular song cannot be measured by market research alone. As this article illustrates, such data must be augmented through a knowledge of the emotional investments that regional groups make in appropriating particular songs and performances as their own. In the mid-seventies, Newfoundland songwriter Ron Hynes composed and began publicly performing "Sonny's Dream." Since then, the song has attained a degree of international po…
Afterword: TheJournal of American Folkloreand Americanist versus Canadianist Traditions
Pistol Packin' Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong
Morning Dew and Roses: Nuance, Metaphor, and Meaning in Folksongs
Producing Blues Recordings
A Tribute: Kenneth S. Goldstein, Record Producer
for 13 different record companies. Kenny's career progression was a reversal of The Folklorist as Record Producer (Rosenberg 1989), for he was a record producer immersed in public folklore long before he considered the possibilities of becoming an academic. As a scholar he committed himself to academic productions (articles, books, conference panels), but he continued his popular culture productions (records, festivals) as well, bringing the prac…
The Good People: New Fairylore Essays
Whether called good people, little people, or simply them, fairies are familiar from their appearances in Shakespeare's plays, Disney's films, and points in between. In many cultures, however, fairies are not just the stuff of distant legend or literature: they are real creatures with supernatural powers. The Good People presents nineteen essays that focus on the actual fairies of folklore -- fairies of past and living traditions who affected, an…
The Influences of Hispanic Music Cultures on African-American Blues Musicians
Egalitarian quests for multiculturalism can be offset by the lingering legacy of melting pot ideology. Cultural examinations of ethnicity exemplify this, for they frequently focus on minority-dominant relations, that is, the contributions of an ethnic group to the majority culture. Unless the linear, vertical focus of such scholarship is balanced by greater breadth, our perceptions will remain oversimplified and skewed. Recent work by Portia Maul…
Tricks and Fun: Subversive Pleasures at Newfoundland Wakes
Death used to be an integral part of life that united home and community, but today we deny it. Dying persons are routinely sequestered from the living in specialized hospital wards. Professionally trained morticians prepare cadavers to be life-like for public display in funeral homes. Domestic funerary customs and rituals, community mechanisms of consolation and collective support for the bereaved, no longer appear to be with us. In Newfoundland…
The English Occupational Song
This is the first full-length study in English of occupational songs. They occupy the space between rhythmic work songs and labour songs in that the occupation signifies. Occupation is a key territorial site. If the métier of the protagonist is mentioned in a ballad, it cannot be regarded as merely a piece of illustrative detail. On the contrary, it initiates a powerful series of connotations that control the narrative, while the song's specific …
Folkloristics, Cultural Studies and Popular Culture
Folklorists have examined four relations of folklore and contemporary popular culture: the incorporation of folklore into popular art; traditions engendered within the discourses and production of popular culture; the expressive uses of mass culture in small group contexts; and, popular folk revivals. Students of “cultural studies,” an international academie development which began at the University of Birmingham in the 1960s, have made significa…
Current Blues Recordings
I've Gotten Soppy: Send-Off Parties” as Rites of Passage in the Occupational Folklife of CBC Reporters
Joseph R. Smallwood, «The Barrelman»: The Broadcaster as Folklorist
Cet article résume la carrière radiophonique de l'honorable Joseph R. Smallwood, carrière à laquelle celui-ci a attribué son plus grand succès politique : l'entrée de Terre-Neuve dans le Canada, ainsi que ses 24 ans comme premier ministre de la province. "The Barrelman” (La vigie) était une émission d'un quart d'heure, six jours par semaine, émise par la station VONF entre octobre 1937 et décembre 1943.Smallwood faisait grand usage de folklore da…
Alley Life in Washington: Family, Community, Religion, and Folklife in the City, 1850-1970
The Influences of Hispanic Music Cultures on African-American Blues Musicians
Egalitarian quests for multiculturalism can be offset by the lingering legacy of melting pot ideology. Cultural examinations of ethnicity exemplify this, for they frequently focus on minority-dominant relations, that is, the contributions of an ethnic group to the majority culture. Unless the linear, vertical focus of such scholarship is balanced by greater breadth, our perceptions will remain oversimplified and skewed. Recent work by Portia Maul…
Tricks and Fun: Subversive Pleasures at Newfoundland Wakes
Death used to be an integral part of life that united home and community, but today we deny it. Dying persons are routinely sequestered from the living in specialized hospital wards. Professionally trained morticians prepare cadavers to be life-like for public display in funeral homes. Domestic funerary customs and rituals, community mechanisms of consolation and collective support for the bereaved, no longer appear to be with us. In Newfoundland…
I Think I Wrote a Folksong: Popularity and Regional Vernacular Anthems
The popularity of vernacular song cannot be measured by market research alone. As this article illustrates, such data must be augmented through a knowledge of the emotional investments that regional groups make in appropriating particular songs and performances as their own. In the mid-seventies, Newfoundland songwriter Ron Hynes composed and began publicly performing "Sonny's Dream." Since then, the song has attained a degree of international po…
Afterword: TheJournal of American Folkloreand Americanist versus Canadianist Traditions
The English Occupational Song
This is the first full-length study in English of occupational songs. They occupy the space between rhythmic work songs and labour songs in that the occupation signifies. Occupation is a key territorial site. If the métier of the protagonist is mentioned in a ballad, it cannot be regarded as merely a piece of illustrative detail. On the contrary, it initiates a powerful series of connotations that control the narrative, while the song's specific …
Alley Life in Washington: Family, Community, Religion, and Folklife in the City, 1850-1970
Joseph R. Smallwood, «The Barrelman»: The Broadcaster as Folklorist
Cet article résume la carrière radiophonique de l'honorable Joseph R. Smallwood, carrière à laquelle celui-ci a attribué son plus grand succès politique : l'entrée de Terre-Neuve dans le Canada, ainsi que ses 24 ans comme premier ministre de la province. "The Barrelman” (La vigie) était une émission d'un quart d'heure, six jours par semaine, émise par la station VONF entre octobre 1937 et décembre 1943.Smallwood faisait grand usage de folklore da…
Alley Life in Washington: Family, Community, Religion, and Folklife in the City, 1850-1970
I've Gotten Soppy: Send-Off Parties” as Rites of Passage in the Occupational Folklife of CBC Reporters
Current Blues Recordings
Folkloristics, Cultural Studies and Popular Culture
Folklorists have examined four relations of folklore and contemporary popular culture: the incorporation of folklore into popular art; traditions engendered within the discourses and production of popular culture; the expressive uses of mass culture in small group contexts; and, popular folk revivals. Students of “cultural studies,” an international academie development which began at the University of Birmingham in the 1960s, have made significa…
The Influences of Hispanic Music Cultures on African-American Blues Musicians
Egalitarian quests for multiculturalism can be offset by the lingering legacy of melting pot ideology. Cultural examinations of ethnicity exemplify this, for they frequently focus on minority-dominant relations, that is, the contributions of an ethnic group to the majority culture. Unless the linear, vertical focus of such scholarship is balanced by greater breadth, our perceptions will remain oversimplified and skewed. Recent work by Portia Maul…
Tricks and Fun: Subversive Pleasures at Newfoundland Wakes
Death used to be an integral part of life that united home and community, but today we deny it. Dying persons are routinely sequestered from the living in specialized hospital wards. Professionally trained morticians prepare cadavers to be life-like for public display in funeral homes. Domestic funerary customs and rituals, community mechanisms of consolation and collective support for the bereaved, no longer appear to be with us. In Newfoundland…
The English Occupational Song
This is the first full-length study in English of occupational songs. They occupy the space between rhythmic work songs and labour songs in that the occupation signifies. Occupation is a key territorial site. If the métier of the protagonist is mentioned in a ballad, it cannot be regarded as merely a piece of illustrative detail. On the contrary, it initiates a powerful series of connotations that control the narrative, while the song's specific …
Morning Dew and Roses: Nuance, Metaphor, and Meaning in Folksongs
Producing Blues Recordings
A Tribute: Kenneth S. Goldstein, Record Producer
for 13 different record companies. Kenny's career progression was a reversal of The Folklorist as Record Producer (Rosenberg 1989), for he was a record producer immersed in public folklore long before he considered the possibilities of becoming an academic. As a scholar he committed himself to academic productions (articles, books, conference panels), but he continued his popular culture productions (records, festivals) as well, bringing the prac…
The Good People: New Fairylore Essays
Whether called good people, little people, or simply them, fairies are familiar from their appearances in Shakespeare's plays, Disney's films, and points in between. In many cultures, however, fairies are not just the stuff of distant legend or literature: they are real creatures with supernatural powers. The Good People presents nineteen essays that focus on the actual fairies of folklore -- fairies of past and living traditions who affected, an…
Pistol Packin' Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong
Introduction: Folklore in Canada
Introduction:Folklore in Canada Pauline Greenhill (bio) and Peter Narváez (bio) In the introduction and afterword to this special issue of the Journal of American Folklore on Canada, we refer to several kinds of "stories we tell about ourselves" (see Geertz 1973:448). There are stories that Canadian folklorists have told about ourselves-and an indication of what new versions of those stories might look like. There are stories that American folklo…
Afterword: The Journal of American Folklore and Americanist versus Canadianist Traditions
IT SEEMS REMARKABLE, GIVEN THEIR relative paucity in recent issues of JAF, that Canadian materials, and to an extent Canadian or Canadian-based researchers, were pivotal to the American Folklore Society's early years. Cross-border intellectual activity has al- ways been significant both in American folkloristics and Canadian folklore/ethnology. The work of Edward D. Ives in the northeast exemplifies this tendency among Ameri- can scholars. Howeve…
I Think I Wrote a Folksong: Popularity and Regional Vernacular Anthems
The popularity of vernacular song cannot be measured by market research alone. As this article illustrates, such data must be augmented through a knowledge of the emotional investments that regional groups make in appropriating particular songs and performances as their own. In the mid-seventies, Newfoundland songwriter Ron Hynes composed and began publicly performing "Sonny's Dream." Since then, the song has attained a degree of international po…
Afterword: TheJournal of American Folkloreand Americanist versus Canadianist Traditions
Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture
Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folkore and Popular Culture
Folklore and Marginality
Art (13 works) · History (12 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Art history (7 works) · Folklore (7 works) · Music History and Culture (7 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)