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Damnable practises : witches, dangerous women, and music in seventeenth-century English broadside ballads / Sarah F. Williams.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate. 2015.Description: xii, 225 p. : ill., music ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781472420824 (hbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23
Contents:
Witches, Catholics, scolds, and wives: noisy women in context -- "The hanging tune": feminizing and stigmatizing broadside trade melodies -- "A swearing and blaspheming wretch": acoustic disorder and verbal excess in ballad texts -- "Auditories are like fairies": hearing, seeing, selling, and singing ballads -- Conclusion: "chronicled in ditty": ephemera, permanence, and the broadside ballad's legacy into the eighteenth century.

Select bibliography: p. 189-215.

Witches, Catholics, scolds, and wives: noisy women in context -- "The hanging tune": feminizing and stigmatizing broadside trade melodies -- "A swearing and blaspheming wretch": acoustic disorder and verbal excess in ballad texts -- "Auditories are like fairies": hearing, seeing, selling, and singing ballads -- Conclusion: "chronicled in ditty": ephemera, permanence, and the broadside ballad's legacy into the eighteenth century.

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