Damnable practises [electronic resource] : witches, dangerous women, and music in seventeenth-century English broadside ballads / Sarah F. Williams, University of south Carolina, USA.

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.