Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads

Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads
Author :
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 241
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781472420824
ISBN-13 : 1472420829
Rating : 4/5 (829 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads by : Dr Sarah F Williams

Download or read book Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads written by Dr Sarah F Williams and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads Related Books

Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Dr Sarah F Williams
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-28 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Recent scholarship has explored the representations of witchcraft and malfeasance in English street literature; until now, however, the role of music and embodi
Damnable Practises: Witches, Dangerous Women, and Music in Seventeenth-Century English Broadside Ballads
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Sarah F. Williams
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-09 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune indication, and woodcut imagery-related cautionary tales, current events, and simplified myt
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700
Language: en
Pages: 925
Authors: Elizabeth Scott-Baumann
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-09-22 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 brings together new work by scholars across the globe, from some of the founding figur
The Last Witches of England
Language: en
Pages: 269
Authors: John Callow
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-07 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Fascinating and vivid." New Statesman "Thoroughly researched." The Spectator "Intriguing." BBC History Magazine "Vividly told." BBC History Revealed "A timely
Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 166
Authors: Samantha Dressel
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-08-25 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book explores the possibilities and limitations of violence on the Early Modern stage and in the Early Modern world. This collection is divided into three