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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.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xii, 225 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Subject:

Women in music--England--History--17th century.
Broadsides--England--17th century.
Broadsides--England--18th century.
Women--Songs and music--History and criticism.
Music--History--England--History--17th century.
Music--History--England--History--18th century.
Witch hunting--England--History.
Broadsides.
Music--Social aspects.
Witch hunting.
Women.
Women in music.
England.
Flugblattlied.
Ballade.
Musik.
Hexe.
Frau.
England.
1600 - 1799
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Music.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

1472420845 (epub)
9781472420848 (epub)
1472420829 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781472420824 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)893557782

LCCN:

2014040730

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)