The broadside ballad as newspaper: When the melody of “Greensleeves” met the latest public hanging in the City of London
http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-broadside-ballad-as-newspaper-when.html A common scene in movies from the middle of the last century featured a young newspaper hawker standing on a street corner and yelling —”Extra, extra, read all about it”, followed by a brief description of the item that was intended to convince a passer-by to purchase a copy... Continue reading