Singing complaintes criminelles across Europe

The complainte, a song about crime and punishment, is not simply a French phenomenon, but has been found all over Europe since the early modern period. This article compares the French complaintes of 1870-1940 with their counterparts in English, Italian, German and Dutch to reveal European similarit...

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Main Author: Una McIlvenna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Criminocorpus 2021-03-01
Series:Criminocorpus
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/criminocorpus/8608