Singing the News - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Singing the News write by Jenni Hyde. This book was released on 2018-02-15. Singing the News available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. It is a highly readable and accessible account of the important role played by ballads in spreading news during a period when discussing politics was treason. The study provides a new analytical framework for understanding the ways in which balladeers spread their messages to the masses. Jenni Hyde focusses on the melody as much as the words, showing how music helped to shape the understanding of texts. Music provided an emotive soundtrack to words which helped to shape sixteenth-century understandings of gendered monarchy, heresy and the social cohesion of the commonwealth. By combining the study of ballads in manuscript and print with sources such as letters and state records, the study shows that when their topics edged too close to sedition, balladeers were more than capable of using sophisticated methods to disguise their true meaning in order to safeguard themselves and their audience, and above all to ensure that their news hit home.
Singing the News of Death
Singing the News of Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Singing the News of Death write by Una McIlvenna. This book was released on 2022-07-05. Singing the News of Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Across Europe, from the dawn of print until the early twentieth century, the news of crime and criminals' public executions was printed in song form on cheap broadsides and pamphlets to be sold in streets and marketplaces by ballad-singers. Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900 looks at how and why song was employed across Europe for centuries as a vehicle for broadcasting news about crime and executions, exploring how this performative medium could frame and mediate the message of punishment and repentance. Examining ballads in English, French, Dutch, German, and Italian across four centuries, author Una McIlvenna offers the first multilingual and longue durée study of the complex and fascinating phenomenon of popular songs about brutal public death. Ballads were frequently written in the first-person voice, and often purported to be the last words, confession or 'dying speech' of the condemned criminal, yet were ironically on sale the day of the execution itself. Musical notation was generally not required as ballads were set to well-known tunes. Execution ballads were therefore a medium accessible to all, regardless of literacy, social class, age, gender or location. A genre that retained extraordinary continuities in form and content across time, space, and language, the execution ballad grew in popularity in the nineteenth century, and only began to fade as executions themselves were removed from the public eye. With an accompanying database of recordings, Singing the News of Death brings these centuries-old songs of death back to life.
The Earth Is Singing
The Earth Is Singing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Earth Is Singing write by Vanessa Curtis. This book was released on 2015-01-12. The Earth Is Singing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. My name is Hanna. I am 15. I am Latvian. I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing, taken by the Russians. I have a boyfriend and I'm training to be a dancer. But none of that is important any more. Because the Nazis have arrived, and I am a Jew. And as far as they are concerned, that is all that matters. This is my story. "A tragic, harrowing and deeply moving account of the Holocaust from the perspective of an ordinary girl." - The Bookseller
Sing Like Never Before
Sing Like Never Before - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sing Like Never Before write by Justin Stoney. This book was released on 2020-10. Sing Like Never Before available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Singing the Glory Down
Singing the Glory Down - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Singing the Glory Down write by William Lynwood Montell. This book was released on 2015. Singing the Glory Down available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The editors, William J. Devlin and Shai Biderman, have compiled an impressive list of contributors to explore the philosophy at the core of David Lynch's work. Lynch is examined as a postmodern artist and the themes of darkness, logic and time are discussed in depth.
