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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Williams, Sarah F. (Author)
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
Subjects:	Women in music > England > History > 17th century. Broadsides > England > 17th century. Broadsides > England > 18th century. Women > Songs and music > History and criticism. Music > Social aspects > England > History > 17th century. Music > Social aspects > England > History > 18th century. Witch hunting > England > History. Electronic books.
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Table of 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.