[Folkserv] In two weeks: The Utley Lecture with Christopher Marsh

[Moriarty, Megan]

It's two weeks from tomorrow: The 14th Francis Lee Utley Lecture will feature Christopher Marsh (Queen’s University Belfast) presenting "How to Produce a Hit Song (in Seventeenth-Century England)."

Utley Lecture: How to Produce a Hit Song (in Seventeenth-Century England)
Friday, March 31
4 - 5:30 pm
Colloquium Space in 18th Ave Library


This lecture will consider the possibility that pop music began not in the 1950s, but in the 1590s (or thereabouts). Broadside ballads – sheet songs that sold for a penny a piece in early modern England – were, arguably, the first form of commercially-driven popular music and also the cheapest form of literature available at the time. The talk will focus particularly on 120 ballads that can be identified as major hits of the period, asking what it was about these super-songs that made them so successful and set them apart from thousands of other surviving ballads.  We'll hear and see a range of songs, dealing with topics such as love, death, violence, religion and politics.


Christopher Marsh is a social and cultural historian of early modern England and has published work on religion, social relations, gender and music. He teaches on various subjects, including popular culture, the family, gender relations and the history of museums.


This event is free and open to the public. Co-hosted by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Center for Folklore Studies and the OSU Humanities Institute.


For more information, go to: https://go.osu.edu/cmrs_cm_onl



Megan Moriarty

Communications Specialist


The Ohio State University

Humanities Institute

456 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road, Columbus, OH 43210


614-247-1650

moriarty.8 at osu.edu<mailto:moriarty.8 at osu.edu> / osu.edu<http://www.osu.edu>


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