Singing the News: Ballads in Mid-Tudor England
- Author: Hyde, Jenni
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Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Editorial Note
- A Note on Musical Analysis
- Chapter 1 Introduction - now lesten a whyle & let hus singe
- Chapter 2 'Lend listning eares a while to me' - the production and consumption of sixteenth-century ballads
- Chapter 3 'I praye thee mynstrell make no stoppe' - the music of the mid-Tudor ballads
- Chapter 4 'Sung to filthy tunes' - the meaning of music
- Chapter 5 'Ye never herd so many newes' - the social circulation of information in ballads
- Chapter 6 'Of popyshnes and heresye' - political ballads and the fall of Thomas Cromwell
- Chapter 7 'Lyege lady and queene' - discourses of obedience in the reign of Mary I
- Chapter 8 'Some good man, for the commons speake' - scribal collections and social criticism
- Conclusion 'one hundred of ballits'
- Bibliography