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

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.

Sommario

• Acknowledgements


• Abbreviations


• List of Illustrations


• List of Music Examples


• Introduction


• Part I: Selling the news of death


• Chapter One: The significance of contrafactum or, how melody made meaning


• Chapter Two: The centrality of shame in the punishment ritual


• Chapter Three: Fake news? How execution ballads walked the line between truth and fiction


• Part II: Crimes that Feature in Execution Ballads


• Chapter Four: The Devil's business: religion, witchcraft, sorcery, possession


• Chapter Five: How ballads portrayed murder and violence


• Chapter Six: Political executions in song


• Chapter Seven: Outlaw ballads: fantasy vs reality


• Chapter Eight: The end of execution ballads?


• Coda: Songs about the executioner


• Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Index

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Testo aggiuntivo

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Una McIlvenna, Una (Hansen Senior Lecturer in History Mcilvenna
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780197551851
• ISBN: 978-0-19-755185-1
• Pagine: 554
• Serie: The New Cultural History of Music Series; New Cultural History of Music
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Musica > Storia della musica; Europe, European History, MUSIC / History & Criticism, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Voice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, c 1500 onwards to present day, Social and cultural history, Folk & traditional music, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Folk, Folkloric styles, Traditional and folk music, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600