An Ashgate Book Brass Bands of the World: MilitarisM, Colonial legaCies, and loCal MusiC Making This page has been left blank intentionally Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial legacies, and local Music Making Edited by suzel ana reily Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK katherine BruCher DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA R O Routledge U T L E Taylor & Francis Group D G ELONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © suzel ana reily, katherine Brucher and the contributors 2013 All rights reserved. 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Contents List of Figures and Tables vii List of Musical Examples ix Notes on Contributors xi Foreword by Charles Keil xiii Acknowledgements xxi Introduction: The World of Brass Bands 1 Katherine Brucher and Suzel Ana Reily 1 Brass and Military Bands in Britain – Performance Domains, the Factors that Construct them and their Influence 33 Trevor Herbert 2 Western Challenge, Japanese Musical Response: Military Bands in Modern Japan 55 Sarah McClimon 3 Battlefields and the Field of Music: South Korean Military Band Musicians and the Korean War 79 Heejin Kim 4 From Processions to Encontros: The Performance Niches of the Community Bands of Minas Gerais, Brazil 99 Suzel Ana Reily 5 The Representational Power of the New Orleans Brass Band 123 Matt Sakakeeny 6 Soldiers of God: The Spectacular Musical Ministry of the Christmas Bands in the Western Cape, South Africa 139 Sylvia Bruinders 7 Composing Identity and Transposing Values in Portuguese Amateur Wind Bands 155 Katherine Brucher vi Brass Bands of the World 8 Playing Away: Liminality, Flow and Communitas in an Ulster Flute Band’s Visit to a Scottish Orange Parade 177 Gordon Ramsey 9 From Village to World Stage: The Malleability of Sinaloan Popular Brass Bands 199 Helena Simonett Bibliography 217 Discography 235 Index 237 List of Figures and Tables Figures 4.1 Banda de Música Giulietta Dionesi, 1900. Photos courtesy of Márcia Lemes 111 4.2 Banda de Música Memória de Dom Pedro II, 1899. Photo courtesy of the Centro de Memória do Sul de Minas 112 4.3 Campanhense Jazz-Band. Photo courtesy of the Centro de Memória do Sul de Minas 114 4.4 Corporação Musical Dom Inocêncio playing at an encontro de bandas in Varginha, Minas Gerais, 2008. Photo by Suzel Ana Reily 119 5.1 Members of the Black Men of Labor Social Aid & Pleasure Club pose for a picture before their parade, 3 September 2006. Photo by Matt Sakakeeny 124 5.2 Black Men of Labor founding members Gregg Stafford (far left) and Fred Johnson (far right), 3 September 2006. Photo by Matt Sakakeeny 133 5.3 Members of the Black Men of Labor dance in front of the musicians and second liners, 2 September 2007. Photo by Matt Sakakeeny 134 6.1 St. Joseph’s Christmas Band on parade in Woodstock, 2009. Photo courtesy of Paul Grendon 146 6.2 St. Joseph’s Christmas Band performing at the Union Competition, 2010. Photo courtesy of Paul Grendon 149 7.1 The statue, Homage to the Musician, Largo do Santo António, Covões, 2011. Photo by Katherine Brucher 156 7.2 One of the youngest (foreground) and the oldest (background) musicians in the band in front of the church before the procession for the Feast of Saint Anthony of Covões, June 2011. Photo by Katherine Brucher 172 8.1 Intense focus on the music as the SGWM band enters the field, 2008 187 9.1 Banda Los Guamuchileños in 1947 with a wealthy businessman from Culiacán, sitting. Photo courtesy of Teodoro Ramírez Pereda 202 9.2 Banda El Recodo in front of the church of the village of El Recodo, 1943. Photo courtesy of Rigoberto Zamudio Velarde 204 9.3 Banda El Recodo de Cruz Lizárraga, c. 1963. Photo courtesy of Isidoro Ramírez Sánchez 205 viii Brass Bands of the World Table 2.1 Yamada Kōsaku, ‘Shoshun no Zensō to Kōshinkyoku – Nihon no Kodomo no Tame’ (Early Spring Prelude and March – for the Children of Japan) 76 List of Musical Examples 2.1 ‘A Band With Drawn Swords’. Used with permission of Zen-On Gakufu 61 2.2 ‘Gunkan Kōshinkyoku’ (Battleship March: opening of trio) (reduced transcription). Used with permission of Zen-On Gakufu 64 2.3 ‘Lion Dance of Echigo’ by Yoshimoto Mitsuzō, clarinet excerpt. Used with permission of the Osaka City Band, photo courtesy of Kokusho Kanko Kai 66 2.4 ‘Aikoku Kōshinkyoku’ (Patriotic March) by Setoguchi Tōkichi Used with permission of Zen-On Gakufu 73 2.5 ‘Early Spring Prelude and March’ as performed by the Tokyo College of Music Symphonic Band 75