Singing the News: Ballads in Mid-Tudor England

ISBN-13: 9780367667054 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 262 str.

Jenni Hyde

Opis

Singing the News is the first study to concentrate on sixteenth-century ballads, when there was no regular and reliable alternative means of finding out news and information.

Spis treści

List of Tables

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Editorial Note

A Note on Musical Analysis

Chapter 1 Introduction - now lesten a whyle & let hus singe

Chapter 2 ‘Lend listning eares a while to me’ – the production and consumption of sixteenth-century ballads

Chapter 3 ‘I praye thee mynstrell make no stoppe’ – the music of the mid-Tudor ballads

Chapter 4 ‘Sung to filthy tunes’ – the meaning of music

Chapter 5 ‘Ye never herd so many newes’ – the social circulation of information in ballads

Chapter 6 ‘Of popyshnes and heresye’ – political ballads and the fall of Thomas Cromwell

Chapter 7 ‘Lyege lady and queene’ – discourses of obedience in the reign of Mary I

Chapter 8 ‘Some good man, for the commons speake’ – scribal collections and social criticism

Conclusion ‘one hundred of ballits’

Bibliography

O autorze

Jenni Hyde is Associate Vice-President of the Historical Association. A former music teacher, folk singer and classically-trained soprano, she holds a doctorate in history from the University of Manchester and a PGCE in music from Edge Hill University College. She is Honorary Researcher in History at Lancaster University and an Associate Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University. She has published articles for both journals and popular magazines.