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Routledge Damnable Practises: Witches & Music in 17th Century Broadside Ballads

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Damnable Practises explores the pivotal role of broadside ballads in seventeenth-century England, examining how folio-sized publications containing verse, tune indications, and woodcut imagery disseminated cautionary tales and current events to diverse social classes. These ballads bridged public and private performance spaces, straddling the boundaries between material and ephemeral culture, music and text, oral and written traditions. Street-performed by balladmongers and referenced in theatrical works, broadside ballads were pasted in taverns and homes, offering entertainment whilst encoding anxieties about dangerous women and witchcraft. This scholarly work investigates how ballads functioned as a cultural medium that both titillated audiences and reinforced social concerns, revealing the complex relationship between folk performance, printed media, and early modern perceptions of gender and the supernatural.

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Broadside ballads combined verse, tune indications, and woodcut imagery to communicate with seventeenth-century English audiences across all social classes.

The publication examines how ballads destabilised categories of public and private performance, material and ephemeral culture, and oral and written traditions.

Street-performed by balladmongers and displayed in taverns and domestic spaces, broadside ballads functioned as versatile entertainment and social commentary.

The work explores witchcraft and dangerous women as central themes in seventeenth-century broadside ballad culture, revealing period anxieties through popular song.

Published by Routledge, this scholarly analysis offers comprehensive insights into early modern popular music and its role in shaping cultural attitudes.

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Release Date
15 May 2015
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05 December 2014

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