Can we understand the demise of legacy media and the rise of social media as the primary source of news without knowledge of news media in the past? In this episode, historian Associate Professor Una McIlvenna highlights the use of song in conveying news – of crime, of disasters, of political events in European, British and Australian history. How was the news sung and how can historians recover evidence of those customs? When and why did singing the news give way to different genres and media? Is the hyper-emotional, dramatic world of online news really new?
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