The British Brass Band

Abstract

THE AUTHOR of this article, who is associate professor of history, Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, touches on two items which are common to the current agenda of music educators’ “shop talk.” In discussion, formal and informal, the word “contests” and its varients frequently occur. And, especially since the appearance of Chicago's Salvation Army Brass Band at the 1950 national convention of the College Band Directors National Association, there has been a much higher usage frequency of the term “brass band”—which to many people has been no more than a term loosely applied to all wind bands.