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That moaning saxophone : the Six Brown Brothers and the dawning of a musical craze / Bruce Vermazen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vermazen, Bruce.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Six Brown Brothers.
- Saxophonists--United States--Biography.
- Saxophonists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 292 p.) : ill.
- Other Title:
- That moaning saxophone
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2004.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029022-6
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