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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.

Publication Info. Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
©2015

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML286.2 .W55 2015    Available  ---
Description xii, 225 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Bibliography 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.
Language English text.
Subject Women in music -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Women in music.
England.
History.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Broadsides -- England -- 17th century.
Broadsides.
Broadsides -- England -- 18th century.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Women -- Songs and music -- History and criticism.
Women -- Songs and music.
Music -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Music -- Social aspects.
Music -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Witch hunting -- England -- History.
Witch hunting.
Women.
Chronological Term 1600 - 1799
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Music.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
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