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Author Vermazen, Bruce

Title That moaning saxophone : the Six Brown Brothers and the dawning of a musical craze / Bruce Vermazen
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 292 pages) : illustrations
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Six Brown Brothers
SUBJECT Six Brown Brothers fast
Subject Saxophonists -- United States -- Biography
Saxophonists
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199864140
0199864144