The British brass band
Subtitle: a musical and social history
By: edited by Trevor Herbert
Contributors: Herbert, Trevor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Brass bands -- Great Britain
Other titles: Bands (Milton Keynes, England)
Notes: Rev. and enl. ed. of: Bands : the brass band movement in the 19th and 20th centuries. 1991

Includes discography (p. [354]-355), bibliographical references (p. [356]-367), and index
Table of contents: title: Nineteenth-century bands : making a movement / Trevor Herbert; title: 'What's wrong with brass bands?' : cultural change and the band movement, 1918-c.1964 / Dave Russell; title: The musical revolution of the mid-nineteenth century : from 'repeat and twiddle' to 'precision and snap' / Vic and Sheila Gammon; title: Instruments and instrumentation of British brass bands / Arnold Myers; title: God's perfect minstrels : the bands of the Salvation Army / Trevor Herbert; title: The brass band in the Antipodes : the transplantation of British popular culture / Duncan Bythell; title: Building a repertoire : original compositions for the British brass band, 1913-1998 / Paul Hindmarsh; title: Aspects of performance practices : the brass band and its influence on other brass-playing styles / Trevor Herbert and John Wallace