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Siobhán McElduff · @siobhanmcelduff

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Enjoying this verse from the Scottish murder ballad 'Jellon Grame'

My eyes are seething in my head,
My flesh roasting also
My bowels are boiling with my blood
Is that no a woeful woe?

We just don't write or name ballads like we used to.

#ballads #broadsides #murderballads #scotland

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Siobhán McElduff · @siobhanmcelduff

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Spent a fair while trying to work out why a 19th century slip ballad would refer to a cannibal, and then realised they mean Hannibal and suddenly it all made (a bit more) sense.

#ballads #broadsides

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Andrew Shields · @AndrewShields

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The Honest Broker - Why Were Execution Ballads So Popular in Europe?

"This demand that the criminal apologize in the course of the song—and hence legitimize the execution—reminds me of Foucault’s observation, in Discipline and Punish, that Western societies originally focused on punishing the criminal’s body, but eventually became more obsessed with the offender’s mind.”

#TedGioia #ExecutionBallads #MichelFoucault #DisciplineAndPunish #Music #Broadsides
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/why-were-execution-ballads-so-popular

#broadsides #music #disciplineandpunish #michelfoucault #executionballads #tedgioia

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Daniel Bellingradt :mastodon: · @dbellingradt

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Open media

A folded #broadsheet. Broadsheets or #broadsides are only printed on one side and often featured an image and a text part. This one seems to have only text: about a Victory? These single-sheet items, as #bookhistory calls them, were steadily produced for special occasions, and sold well.

8/10

#broadsheet #broadsides #bookhistory

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