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Singing the News of Death
Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900

English · Hardback

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Author Una McIlvenna brings the execution ballad to life in Singing the News of Death, uncovering the relationship between punishment and music throughout Europe from 1500-1900 with an unprecedented breadth of study and ambition.


About the author

Una McIlvenna is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University. A literary and cultural historian of early modern Europe, she is also the author of Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici (2016). She has held positions at the Universities of Melbourne, Sydney, Kent and Queen Mary University of London.

Summary

Author Una McIlvenna brings the execution ballad to life in Singing the News of Death, uncovering the relationship between punishment and music throughout Europe from 1500-1900 with an unprecedented breadth of study and ambition.

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This book encompasses a corpus of ballads in English, French, German, Italian, and Dutch, spanning from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the eve of the Second World War. This broad scope provides valuable insight into a genre that, as McIlvenna convincingly demonstrates, features significant continuity across the entire spatial and temporal range of this study.

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