| Abstract: | This magnificent collection includes 245 romances text-types (plus 39 different oraçoes, 10 ensalmos, and 6 other poem types of diverse character), recorded in the immigrant community of Toronto, mostly from Azorian singers. There is a substantial introduction concerning Portuguese immigration to Canada and the formation of Fontes`s collection. Indices of ballad themes and informants close the volume. A table of correspondences with S. G. Armistead et al., El romancero judeo-español en el Archivo Menéndez Pidal, 3 vols. (Madrid: C.S.M.P., 1978), helps link the collection to the Pan-Hispanic tradition. This is a fundamentally important contribution to Hispanic ballad studies and, along with José Leite de Vasconcellos` Romanceiro português, will remain an indispensable source for the study of the Portuguese tradition
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| Reviews: | Idelette Fonseca dos Santos, Arquivos do Centro Cultural Portugues, Paris), XIV (1979), 666-668; J. Gella Iturriaga, RDTP, XXXV (1979-1980), 229-231; John G. Cummins, BHS, LVIII (1981), 136-138; David Higgs, Canadian Ethnic Studies, XIII:2 (1981), 128 (en el artículo: "Some Review Notes on a Decade of Portuguese-Canadian Studies", pp. 124-130); Alves Pires, Brotéria, núm. 113:23 (1981), 230-231; Candace Slater, HR, XLIX (1981), 519-520; José Ares Montes, RFE, LXI (1981), 271-272; Maria Aliete Farinho das Dores Galhoz, RL, I (1981), 134-137; Joanne B. Purcell, WF, XL (1981), 192-196; Mary L. Daniel, Hispania, LXVI (1983), 136-137; J. H. Parker, RCEH, VII:2 (1983), 318-319; Maria Filomena Saraiva de Carvalho Pereira de Brito, RPF, 18 (1980-1986), 809-816.
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