Title: Damnable practises : witches, dangerous women, and music in seventeenth-century English broadside ballads /
Authors: Williams, Sarah F.,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Women in music England History; Broadsides England; Broadsides England; Women Songs and music History and criticism.; Music Social aspects England History; Music Social aspects England History; Witch hunting England History.; Broadsides; Music Social aspects.; Witch hunting; Women; Women in music; Flugblattlied.; Ballade; Musik; Hexe; Frau; England; England
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.