The British Brass Band is based on an earlier volume, Bands, published by Open University Press (1991) as part of its Popular Music in Britain Series. It was hailed as the most detailed and scholarly treatment of its subject. For the present volume, the original chapters have been heavily revised and an additional three chapters added, together with new and extensive appendices, numerous illustrations, a bibliography, and a new introduction. The new material includes studies on brass band repert...

• Preface
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• Nineteenth-Century Bands: Making a Movement, Trevor Herbert
• 'What's Wrong with Brass Bands?': Cultural Change and the Band Movement, 1918- c.1964, Dave Russell
• The Musical Revolution of the Mid-Nineteenth Century: From 'repeat and twiddle' to 'precision and snap', Vic & Sheila Gammon
• Instruments and Instrumentation of British Brass Bands, Arnold Myers
• God's Perfect Minstrels: The Bands of the Salvation Army, Trevor Herbert
• The ...