Singing the news in sixteenth-century cologne : the music broadsheets and pamphlets of Nikolaus Schreiber Cover Image

Singing the news in sixteenth-century cologne : the music broadsheets and pamphlets of Nikolaus Schreiber
Singing the news in sixteenth-century cologne : the music broadsheets and pamphlets of Nikolaus Schreiber

Author(s): Mahew Laube
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Czech Literature
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Nikolaus Schreiber; Neue Zeitung; Cologne; Köln; ballad; song; street singer; broadsheet; pamphlet; Liedflugblatt; Liedflugschrift; Eighty Years' War; Nikolaus Schreiber; Neue Zeitung

Summary/Abstract: Active in Cologne between 1563 and 1598, the German printer Nikolaus Schreiber was a prolific publisher of Neue Zeitungen ("new reports"), short pamphlets and broadsheets which conveyed news of current events in both prose and ballad formats. Schreiber's five publications of news songs, which previously have received only passing consideration by scholars, are analyzed and contextualized in relation to his larger body of news pamphlets, as well as Cologne's mixed confessional environment during the late sixteenth century.

  • Issue Year: 26/2023
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 190-206
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English