That moaning saxophone : the Six Brown Brothers and the dawning of a musical craze / Bruce Vermazen.

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 forgott...

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Online Access:Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online
Main Author: Vermazen, Bruce.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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