Singing the news of death: execution ballads in Europe 1500-1900
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...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 thisperformative 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 aboutbrutal 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 contentacross 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 tolife |
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| adam_text | Contents ix xiii xv xix List ofIllustrations List ofMusic Examples Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Selling the News of Death 1 PART I FEATURES OF EXECUTION BALLADS 1. The Significance of Contrafactum, or, How Melody Made Meaning 49 2. The Centrality of Shame in the Punishment Ritual 89 3. Fake News? How Execution Ballads Walked the Line between Truth and Fiction 130 PARTII CRIMES THAT FEATURE IN EXECUTION BALLADS 4. The Devil’s Business: Religion, Witchcraft, Sorcery, Possession 185 5. How Ballads Portrayed Murder and Violence 228 6. Political Executions in Song 285 7. Outlaw Balladry: Fantasy vs Reality 343 8. The End of Execution Ballads? 376 Coda: Songs about the Executioner 445 Conclusion: The Centrality of Song to Punishment 453 Bibliography Index ofSongs Index 459 505 515
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Contents ix xiii xv xix List ofIllustrations List ofMusic Examples Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Selling the News of Death 1 PART I FEATURES OF EXECUTION BALLADS 1. The Significance of Contrafactum, or, How Melody Made Meaning 49 2. The Centrality of Shame in the Punishment Ritual 89 3. Fake News? How Execution Ballads Walked the Line between Truth and Fiction 130 PARTII CRIMES THAT FEATURE IN EXECUTION BALLADS 4. The Devil’s Business: Religion, Witchcraft, Sorcery, Possession 185 5. How Ballads Portrayed Murder and Violence 228 6. Political Executions in Song 285 7. Outlaw Balladry: Fantasy vs Reality 343 8. The End of Execution Ballads? 376 Coda: Songs about the Executioner 445 Conclusion: The Centrality of Song to Punishment 453 Bibliography Index ofSongs Index 459 505 515 |
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