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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Hyde, Jenni;

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Gower Publishing Ltd

Routledge Ltd

Material readings in early modern culture, New York, 2018

Material readings in early modern culture, Andover, 2018

Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), New York, NY, 2018

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

lg2952855

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Cover 1
Half Title 2
Title Page 4
Copyright Page 5
Dedication 6
Contents 8
List of Figures 10
List of Tables 14
Acknowledgements 16
Abbreviations 18
Editorial Note 20
Introduction 22
1 ‘Now lesten a whyle & let hus singe’: The World of the Sixteenth-Century Ballad 29
2 ‘Lend listning eares a while to me’: The Production and Consumption of Sixteenth-Century Ballads 44
3 ‘I praye thee Mynstrell make no stoppe’: The Music of the Mid-Tudor Ballads 68
4 ‘Sung to filthy tunes’: The Meaning of Music 100
5 ‘Ye never herd so many newes’: The Social Circulation of Information in Ballads 127
6 ‘Of popyshnes and heresye’: Political Ballads and the Fall of Thomas Cromwell 149
7 ‘Lyege lady and queene’: Discourses of Obedience in the Reign of Mary I 180
8 ‘Some Good Man, for the Commons Speake’: Radical Ballads and the Commonwealth 209
Conclusion: ‘one hundred of ballits’ 238
Appendix: A Note on Musical Analysis 244
Bibliography 250
Index of Ballad Titles and Tunes 274
General Index 278
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Cover 1
Half Title 2
Title Page 4
Copyright Page 5
Dedication 6
Contents 8
List of Figures 10
List of Tables 14
Acknowledgements 16
Abbreviations 18
Editorial Note 20
Introduction 22
1 ‘Now lesten a whyle & let hus singe’: The World of the Sixteenth-Century Ballad 29
2 ‘Lend listning eares a while to me’: The Production and Consumption of Sixteenth-Century Ballads 44
3 ‘I praye thee Mynstrell make no stoppe’: The Music of the Mid-Tudor Ballads 68
4 ‘Sung to filthy tunes’: The Meaning of Music 100
5 ‘Ye never herd so many newes’: The Social Circulation of Information in Ballads 127
6 ‘Of popyshnes and heresye’: Political Ballads and the Fall of Thomas Cromwell 149
7 ‘Lyege lady and queene’: Discourses of Obedience in the Reign of Mary I 180
8 ‘Some Good Man, for the Commons Speake’: Radical Ballads and the Commonwealth 209
Conclusion: ‘one hundred of ballits’ 238
Appendix: A Note on Musical Analysis 244
Bibliography 250
Index of Ballad Titles and Tunes 274
General Index 278

2021-02-27