Dr. Peter Narvaez
Dr. Peter Narváez
Honorary Research Professor
Department of Folklore
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL
A1B 3X8
Phone: 709-864-8402
Email: badaxe7@gmail.com
Dr. Peter Narváez is a folklorist, ethnomusicologist and
musician with research interests in vernacular music, traditional
song, blues, jazz, African-American folklore, Newfoundland
folklore, popular culture, folklore and media, folk custom and
belief, and occupational folklife. His many articles have appeared
in a wide variety of folklore and behavioral science journals and
he has edited three major collections of essays: Media Sense:
The Folklore-Popular Culture Continuum (with Martin
Laba,1986); The Good People: New Fairylore Essays (1991,
1997); and Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular
Culture (2003).
Dr. Narváez is past president of both the Folklore
Studies Association of Canada and the Association for the Study of
Canadian Radio and Television. He is presently audio-visual editor
for Ethnologies, as well as past sound recordings review
editor for the Journal of American Folklore. In 2002, with
Pauline Greenhill, he edited a special Canadian issue of that
periodical.
In 2006 Peter was honoured to receive the Marius Barbeau Medal from
the Folklore Studies Association of Canada (FSAC)/L'Association
canadienne d'ethnologie et de folklore (ACEF), a lifetime
achievement award in recognition of his contributions to Canadian
folklore studies. Additionally, a special issue of the
Association's journal, Ethnologies (30.2, 2008), was
edited in honour of his work by Pauline Greenhill, Diane Tye, and
Holly Everett, and contributed to by former students and
colleagues.
In 2003 his CD of original blues, Some Good Blues,
earned him nominations for “blues artist of the year”
from the Music Industry Association of Newfoundland and Labrador
(MIA) and the East Coast Music Awards (ECMA). He also founded a
website for Newfoundland and Labrador blues musicians http://www.rowdyblues.com
Brief CV
Peter's
page at Rowdyblues.com
Special issue
of Ethnologies
