TY  - BOOK
AU  - Williams,Sarah F.
TI  - Damnable practises: witches, dangerous women, and music in seventeenth-century English broadside ballads 
SN  - 9781472420824 (hbk.) :
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Farnham, Surrey
PB  - Ashgate.
KW  - Women
KW  - Broadsides
KW  - Witches
KW  - Seventeenth century
KW  - England
N1  - 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
ER  -