"She's Gone, Boys": Vernacular Song Responses to the Atlantic Fisheries Crisis
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"She's Gone, Boys": Vernacular Song Responses to the Atlantic Fisheries Crisis

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Published 1997-06-01
Peter Narváez
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Narváez, P. (1997). "She’s Gone, Boys": Vernacular Song Responses to the Atlantic Fisheries Crisis. MUSICultures, 25. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC/article/view/21655
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Abstract

In July 1992 a moratorium on the commercial fishing of cod, the staple of the North Atlantic fisheries, urns enacted by the Government of Canada. Because of the continued decline in fish stocks, the moratorium has been maintained, and fishing for domestic personal consumption has also been prohibited. Various compensation programs have not atoned for the demise of what is regarded as a “way of life." Responding to the crisis, vernacular verse, mostly in song form from Newfoundland, reflects the inadequacies of such programs. In addition, these creations assign causes and solutions while revealing a common usage of musical style, language and signifiers which combine to affirm an allegiance to traditional collective values o f family, community and province through nostalgic experience. Some of the versifiers have turned to the craft for the first time during this disaster because they view songs and recitations as appropriate vehicles for social commentary.
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