30 min

Episode 17: Oops… did I sing that? Ballads and political revolution and change‪.‬ Bawdy Ballads

    • Music History

Today we do a bit of background in how song and politics intermingle from the key years of the English Civil War and look at the ballad "LONDONS Warning-Peece,Being, The Common-Prayers Complaint." from 1643. LONDONS Warning-Peece, BEING, The Common-Prayers Complaint.5 members of ParliamentCharles ICharles I on trial Henrietta MariaThose who signed the death warrant of Charles I“Every tub must stand on it’s own bottomThe First Baron’s WarHung drawn and quartered.Black letter broadsides an...

Today we do a bit of background in how song and politics intermingle from the key years of the English Civil War and look at the ballad "LONDONS Warning-Peece,Being, The Common-Prayers Complaint." from 1643. LONDONS Warning-Peece, BEING, The Common-Prayers Complaint.5 members of ParliamentCharles ICharles I on trial Henrietta MariaThose who signed the death warrant of Charles I“Every tub must stand on it’s own bottomThe First Baron’s WarHung drawn and quartered.Black letter broadsides an...

30 min