Law and Justice in Song

Murder Ballads and Popular Music
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-96483-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 631 g

Reihe: Transforming Legal Histories

This book examines the murder ballad form, songs about death and killing, from a legal history perspective. It is held that taking on the long history of the murder ballad is a way that we can understand how death and killing in song has a function in dealing with the world around us. The book integrates law and humanities scholarship with diverse musical case studies to construct a typology of murder ballads and thus conceptualise the central messages of how murder ballads have treated death and killing. Drawing on a cultural form in which assessment and consideration of death and killing are so vigorously and richly enacted gives lawyers a guide to how those who do not see these matters through a primarily legal lens might understand this part of their world. The study will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of Criminal Law, Legal History, Socio-Legal Studies, Criminology, and Musicology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newman, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Death, Killing, and Murder Ballads; 2. Investigating Murder Ballads; 3. Morality; 4.Vehicles for Bigotry; 5. Means of Resisting Inequality; 6.Tribute and Memorial; 7. Shock Value; 8. Gallows Humour; 9. Image Management; 10. Faith; 11. The Legacy of Criminality in Music

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Newman is Professor of Law at Cardiff University, UK.