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Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads (Paperback)
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Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads (Paperback)
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Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune
indication, and woodcut imagery-related cautionary tales, current
events, and simplified myth and history to a wide range of social
classes across seventeenth century England. Ballads straddled, and
destabilized, the categories of public and private performance
spaces, the material and the ephemeral, music and text, and oral
and written traditions. Sung by balladmongers in the streets and
referenced in theatrical works, they were also pasted to the walls
of local taverns and domestic spaces. They titillated and
entertained, but also educated audiences on morality and gender
hierarchies. Although contemporaneous writers published volumes on
the early modern controversy over women and the English witch
craze, broadside ballads were perhaps more instrumental in
disseminating information about dangerous women and their acoustic
qualities. Recent scholarship has explored the representations of
witchcraft and malfeasance in English street literature; until now,
however, the role of music and embodied performance in
communicating female transgression has yet to be investigated.
Sarah Williams carefully considers the broadside ballad as a
dynamic performative work situated in a unique cultural context.
Employing techniques drawn from musical analysis, gender studies,
performance studies, and the histories of print and theater, she
contends that broadside ballads and their music made connections
between various degrees of female crime, the supernatural, and
cautionary tales for and about women.
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