The Gerald S. Doyle Songsters and the Politics of Newfoundland Folksong

• Published in: Ethnologies
• Main Author: Rosenberg, Neil V.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Association Canadienne d’Ethnologie et de Folklore 1991
• Subjects: Doyle; Newfoundland; Terre-Neuve
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1081698ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1081698ar

The textual contents of the first two editions of St.John’s businessman Doyle’s widely distributed booklets are examined. The focus is upon their relation to political and social ideas and events. In each edition, Doyle printed songs from Newfoundland’s past as a commentary on its present, choosing...