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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

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      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 12 April 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315569895
      Pages 268
      eBook ISBN 9781315569895
      Subjects Arts, Humanities
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      Reily, S.A., & Brucher, K. (Eds.). (2013). Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies, and Local Music Making (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315569895

      ABSTRACT

      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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