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Damnable practices : witches, dangerous women, and music in seventeenth-century English broadside ballads / Sarah F. Williams, University of south Carolina, USA.
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Author
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Date published
2015
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Publisher
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
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Subject
Women Songs and music History and criticism
Women in music England History 17th century
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Accession number
83426856
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Class
93.0241/WIL
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Language
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Physical description
xii, 225 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
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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.