TY  - BOOK
AU  - McIlvenna,Una
TI  - Singing the news of death: execution ballads in Europe 1500-1900 
T2  - New cultural history of music series
SN  - 9780197551851
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Ballads
KW  - Executions and executioners
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Singing the News of Death explore the hugely popular phenomenon of execution ballads in Europe from the early modern period onwards, revealing how song was employed for centuries as a common means of informing society about the news of public executions. It examines how these ballads, usually cheaply printed and sold by itinerant peddlers, framed the news of crime and punishment, and how the unique features of song - rhythm, rhyme and melody - presented information about criminals in a way that prose accounts could not."-- Dustjacket front flap
ER  -