Author: John BoltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The Trial at Large of John Bolton, Gent
Author: John BoltonThe Family of Bolton in England and America, 1100-1894
Author: Henry Carrington BoltonPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Singing the News of Death
Author: Una McIlvennaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197551858
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
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.
An Account of the Life and Trial of Jonathan Martin, the Lunatic, who Set Fire to York Minster, on the 2nd of February, 1829
Author: The Yorkshire Anthology
Author: James Orchard Halliwell-PhillippsPublisher:
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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Examples of Printed Folk-lore Concerning the North Riding of Yorkshire, York and the Ainsty
Author: Eliza GutchPublisher:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
County Folk-lore: no. 4. North Riding of Yorkshire, York and the Ainsty
Author: Folklore Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Examples of Printed Folk-lore Concerning the North Riding of Yorkshire, York & the Ainsty
Author: Eliza GutchPublisher:
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Category : Ainsty (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
County Folk-lore
Author: Publications
Author: Ballad SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description