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

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• ISBN 10: 0197551874
• ISBN 13: 9780197551875
• Author: Una McIlvenna, Hansen Senior Lecturer in History Una McIlvenna

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.

Table contents:

1. The Significance of Contrafactum, or, How Melody Made Meaning

2. The Centrality of Shame in the Punishment Ritual

3. Fake News? How Execution Ballads Walked the Line between Truth and Fiction

Part II Crimes That Feature in Execution Ballads

4. The Devil’s Business: Religion, Witchcraft, Sorcery, Possession

5. How Ballads Portrayed Murder and Violence

6. Political Executions in Song

7. Outlaw Balladry: Fantasy vs Reality

8. The End of Execution Ballads?

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