Singing the News: Ballads as News Media in Europe and Australia, 1550-1920

该项目旨在利用新的数字化项目，揭示前现代欧洲和后来澳大利亚的歌曲是如何被用来向公众传播新闻的。通过分析跨越四个世纪和五种语言的民谣，该项目希望展示新闻歌曲如何不仅向公众提供信息，还通过利用歌曲的情感和公共性质帮助形成国家认同。预计的结果包括一个创新的数字平台，提供获得许可的民谣录音，公开展示澳大利亚收藏的歌曲珍品，以及重写新闻媒体行业的历史。好处可能包括对澳大利亚国家认同的现代概念如何通过歌曲产生的新见解。

This project aims to take advantage of new digitisation projects to reveal how songs in premodern Europe and later in Australia were used for disseminating news to the public. By analysing ballads across four centuries and five languages, the project expects to show how news-songs not only informed the public but also helped to forge national identities by exploiting the emotive and communal nature of song. Expected outcomes include an innovative digital platform offering licensed recordings of ballads, a public exhibition of song treasures in Australian collections, and a re-written history of the news media industry. Benefits may include new insights into how the modern notion of Australian national identity emerged through song.