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Damnable practises : witches, dangerous women, and music in seventeenth-century English broadside ballads / Sarah F. Williams, University of south Carolina, USA.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML286.2 .W49 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Sarah F., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in music--England--History--17th century.
- Women in music.
- Broadsides--England--17th century.
- Broadsides.
- Broadsides--England--18th century.
- Women--Songs and music--History and criticism.
- Women.
- Music--Social aspects--England--History--17th century.
- Music.
- Music--Social aspects--England--History--18th century.
- Witch hunting--England--History.
- Witch hunting.
- History.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Women--Songs and music.
- England.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Music.
- Songs.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 225 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2015]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-215) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781472420824
- 1472420829
- 9781472420848
- 1472420845
- OCLC:
- 893557782
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