Law and Justice in Song

Murder Ballads and Popular Music

Daniel Newman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

346 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-96483-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.2.2026
Reihe/Serie	Transforming Legal Histories
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
ISBN-10	1-032-96483-9 / 1032964839
ISBN-13	978-1-032-96483-6 / 9781032964836
Zustand	Neuware