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Singing the News - Ballads in Mid-Tudor England (Hardcover)
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Singing the News - Ballads in Mid-Tudor England (Hardcover)
Series: Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
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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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