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Singing the News

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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.

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ISBN: 9780367667054
Publication date: 30th September 2020
Author: Jenni Hyde
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 262 pages
Series: Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
Genres: Literary theory
Art music, orchestral and formal music
Literary studies: general