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Damnable practises : witches, dangerous women, and music in seventeenth-century English broadside ballads
- Title
- Damnable practises : witches, dangerous women, and music in seventeenth-century English broadside ballads / Sarah F. Williams, University of south Carolina, USA.
- Author
- Williams, Sarah F.
- Publication
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- xii, 225 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Women in music
- Music > Social aspects
- Witch hunting
- Broadsides
- Women
- Witch hunting > England > History
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- History
- Women in music > England > History > 17th century
- Broadsides > England > 18th century
- Women > Songs and music > History and criticism
- England
- Music > Social aspects > England > History > 18th century
- 1600 - 1799
- Broadsides > England > 17th century
- Music > Social aspects > England > History > 17th century
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Music.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-215) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JME 15-446
- ISBN
- 9781472420824 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1472420829 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781472420848 (epub)
- 1472420845 (epub)
- 9781472420831 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 1472420837 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 1472420845 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014040730
- OCLC
- 893557782
- Author
- Williams, Sarah F., author.
- Title
- Damnable practises : witches, dangerous women, and music in seventeenth-century English broadside ballads / Sarah F. Williams, University of south Carolina, USA.
- Publisher
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-215) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1600 - 1799
- Research Call Number
- JME 15-446