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broadside

A separately published piece of paper, usually printed on one side and intended to be read unfolded, which is posted, publicly distributed or sold—e.g., proclamations, handbills, newsheets.

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She notes that the broadsides examined here "feature stories of witchcraft, husband-murder, and scolding--transgressions that intertwine the fears of female power, musical and acoustic disorder, loquacity, and social imbalance" (4).

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

49, 78-9) the association is pretty explicit, but it is still a leap of faith to say that it operated in this way throughout the broadside repertoire.

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

In a perfect world, then, I'd always take my bow shots at deer when they're standing broadside.

Arrow angles

Such achievements prompted one commentator to rank Broadside's contributions more highly than anything on either coast: "No other American city can match the record created in Detroit by Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press.

The power of the poet

Most of the collective members called themselves radical feminists (though, over the years, identities shifted and grew) and the content of Broadside reflected that.

Broadly speaking

Dudley Randall, Broadside Press, and the Black Arts Movement in Detroit, 1960-1995.

Theorizing Typography: Printing, Page Design, and the Study of Free Verse

The present essay surveys a genre of folksong that has spanned the folk-popular continuum perhaps longer than any other in Anglo-American tradition: the broadside ballad.

Fictional landscapes and social relations in nineteenth-century broadside ballads

The broadside was meant to be tacked up for public display to announce rebellious colonists' intentions to break away from England.

Shrewsbury's historic claim

Editors' Note: BIBR regrets the oversight, but please note that we have written about Broadside Press in the past.