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1 online resource (xx, 261 pages) : illustrations, maps, music |
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Material readings in early modern culture |
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Material readings in early modern culture.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Editorial Note; Introduction; 1 â#x80;#x98;Now lesten a whyle & let hus singeâ#x80;#x99;: The World of the Sixteenth-Century Ballad; 2 â#x80;#x98;Lend listning eares a while to meâ#x80;#x99;: The Production and Consumption of Sixteenth-Century Ballads; 3 â#x80;#x98;I praye thee Mynstrell make no stoppeâ#x80;#x99;: The Music of the Mid-Tudor Ballads; 4 â#x80;#x98;Sung to filthy tunesâ#x80;#x99;: The  Meaning of Music; 5 â#x80;#x98;Ye never herd so many newesâ#x80;#x99;: The Social Circulation of Information in Ballads |
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6 â#x80;#x98;Of popyshnes and heresyeâ#x80;#x99;: Political Ballads and the Fall of Thomas Cromwell7 â#x80;#x98;Lyege lady and queeneâ#x80;#x99;: Discourses of Obedience in the Reign of Mary I; 8 â#x80;#x98;Some Good Man, for the Commons Speakeâ#x80;#x99;: Radical Ballads and the Commonwealth; Conclusion: â#x80;#x98;one hundred of ballitsâ#x80;#x99;; Appendix: A Note on Musical Analysis; Bibliography; Index of Ballad Titles and Tunes; General Index |
| Summary |
"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."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Critical theory.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Music -- 500-1400.
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Music -- 15th century.
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Music -- 16th century.
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Literature -- Study and teaching.
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Literature -- History and criticism -- Early modern, 1500-1700
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critical theories (dialectical critiques)
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critical theory (sociological concept)
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Critical theory
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Literature
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Literature -- Philosophy
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Literature -- Study and teaching
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Music
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315148601 |
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1315148609 |
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