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Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies, and Local Music Making

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Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies, and Local Music Making book

Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies, and Local Music Making

DOI link for Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies, and Local Music Making

Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies, and Local Music Making book

Edited BySuzel Ana Reily, Katherine Brucher
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 15 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315569895
Pages 268 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315569895
SubjectsArts, Humanities
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Reily, S. (Ed.), Brucher, K. (Ed.). (2013). Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies, and Local Music Making. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315569895

Bands structured around western wind instruments are among the most widespread instrumental ensembles in the world. Although these ensembles draw upon European military traditions that spread globally through colonialism, militarism and missionary work, local musicians have adapted the brass band prototype to their home settings, and today these ensembles are found in religious processions and funerals, military manoeuvres and parades, and popular music genres throughout the world. Based on their expertise in ethnographic and archival research, the contributors to this volume present a series of essays that examine wind band cultures from a range of disciplinary perspectives, allowing for a comparison of band cultures across geographic and historical fields. The themes addressed encompass the military heritage of band cultures; local appropriations of the military prototype; links between bands and their local communities; the spheres of local band activities and the modes of sociability within them; and the role of bands in trajectories toward professional musicianship. This book will appeal to readers with an interest in ethnomusicology, colonial and post-colonial studies, community music practices, as well as anyone who has played with or listened to their local band.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |32 pages

Introduction: The World of Brass Bands

ByKatherine Brucher, Suzel Ana Reily

chapter 1|22 pages

Brass and Military Bands in Britain – Performance Domains, the Factors that Construct them and their Influence

ByTrevor Herbert

chapter 2|24 pages

Western Challenge, Japanese Musical Response: Military Bands in Modern Japan

chapter 3|20 pages

Battlefields and the Field of Music: South Korean Military Band Musicians and the Korean War

chapter 4|24 pages

From Processions to Encontros: The Performance Niches of the Community Bands of Minas Gerais, Brazil

chapter 5|16 pages

The Representational Power of the New Orleans Brass Band

ByMatt Sakakeeny

chapter 6|16 pages

Soldiers of God: The Spectacular Musical Ministry of the Christmas Bands in the Western Cape, South Africa

BySylvia Bruinders

chapter 7|22 pages

Composing Identity and Transposing Values in Portuguese Amateur Wind Bands

ByKatherine Brucher

chapter 8|22 pages

Playing Away: Liminality, Flow and Communitas in an Ulster Flute Band’s Visit to a Scottish Orange Parade

ByGordon Ramsey

chapter 9|18 pages

From Village to World Stage: The Malleability of Sinaloan Popular Brass Bands

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