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
Biography
Jenni Hyde is Associate Vice-President of the Historical Association. A former music teacher, folk singer and classically-trained soprano, she holds a doctorate in history from the University of Manchester and a PGCE in music from Edge Hill University College. She is Honorary Researcher in History at Lancaster University and an Associate Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University. She has published articles for both journals and popular magazines.
This is a significant book.
David Atkinson - Folk Music Journal
