Bands : the brass band movement in the 19th and 20th centuries /
edited by Trevor Herbert.
- Milton Keynes : Open University Press, 1991.
- xii, 224 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
- Popular music in Britain .
Includes appendices and bibliography.
Nineteenth-century bands: the making of a movement / Trevor Herbert -- "What's wrong with thee brass bands?" Cultural change and the band movement, 1918-c. 1964 / Dave Russell -- Brass band contests: art or sport? / Clifford Bevan -- From 'repeat and twiddle' to 'precision and snap': the musical revolution of the mid-nineteenth century / Vic and Sheila Gammon -- The brass band in Australia: the transplantation of British popular culture, 1850-1950 / Duncan Bythell -- Postscript / Trevor Herbert