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The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa
Paul E. Bierley
Cloth978-0-252-03147-2
$60.00
| Pub Date: | 2006 |
| Pages: | 496 pages |
| Dimensions: | 8.5 x 11 in. |
| Illustrations: | 127 Photographs, 2 Maps/Graphs |
The complete history of America’s marching band marvel
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) is an American icon. Most famous for his military marches, the composer bandmaster led a disciplined group of devoted musicians on numerous American tours and around the world, shaping a new cultural landscape.
Paul Bierley has spent forty years documenting every aspect of the "March King's" band: its history, its star performers, its appearances on recordings and radio, and the problems they faced on their 1911 trip around the world. Enhanced by more than 120 images and photographs, The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa also contains six statistical appendixes detailing where the band played, what it played, a complete list of musicians, instrumentation of the band, program listings, and a discography.
"Solidly researched, the book provides a view of music in American life not found in other studies of Sousa or the period. Highly recommended."--Library Journal
"The premier Sousa authority, Bierley (an independent scholar) caps his 40-year career with this admirably complrehensive tome on his - and many Americans' - favorite subject. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice
"A remarkable array of carefully arranged and meticulously detailed data. . . . Bierley opens doors to new arenas of American music research. . . . With this remarkable book, Sousa research is now ready to really begin."--Nineteenth-Century Music Review
"This is the first major scholarly work to minutely detail the four-decade-long existence of the greatest and most influential concert band ever. A magnificent resource brimming with intriguing and detailed information, it is one of the best books ever in the field of band scholarship."--Craig B. Parker, professor of music history, Kansas State University
Paul Edmund Bierley is the world's leading Sousa authority. He is the author of The Works of John Philip Sousa, John Philip Sousa, American Phenomenon, and other books on Sousa and band music.
Awards:
Received the 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research, under the heading of “Best Discography.”
Links:
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Series:
Music in American Life
Subjects:
Music / Biography & Personal Papers / Popular Culture
