That moaning saxophone : the Six Brown Brothers and the dawning of a musical craze
Vermazen, Bruce2009
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Rather than a note-by-note analysis of the music, the book works with the music in its context, offering a cultural interpretation of blackface and minstrelsy, a history of the invention and evolution of the saxophone, and insight into the burgeoning American music/entertainment business and forgotten music traditions.
Main title:
That moaning saxophone : the Six Brown Brothers and the dawning of a musical craze / by Bruce Vermazen.
Author:
Imprint:
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Collation:
320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2004.
ISBN:
9780195372182 (pbk)
Dewey class:
788.709227785.18
Language:
English
BRN:
2081144