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Jill Sullivan - Bands of Sisters - 9780810881624 - V9780810881624
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Bands of Sisters

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Description for Bands of Sisters Hardcover. Series: American Wind Band. Num Pages: 182 pages, 32 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; AVGG; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
On Saturday, November 14, 1944, radio listeners heard an enthusiastic broadcast announcer describe something they had never heard before: Women singing the "Marines' Hymn" instead of the traditional all-male United States Marine Band. The singers were actually members of its sister organization, The Marine Corps Women's Reserve Band of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Today, few remember these all-female military bands because only a small number of their performances were broadcast or pressed to vinyl. But, as Jill Sullivan argues in Bands of Sisters: U.S. Women's Military Bands during World War II, these gaps in the historical record can hardly be ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
Series
American Wind Band
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810881624
SKU
V9780810881624
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About Jill Sullivan
Jill M. Sullivan is associate professor of Music Education at Arizona State University.

Reviews for Bands of Sisters
Appearing in the "American Wind Band Series," ed. by Raoul Camus, this book considers all eight of the known women's bands and several drum and bugle corps in four branches of the military during WW II. With this project Sullivan (music education, Arizona State Univ.) synthesizes and helps preserve a substantial body of primary sources, some of which might otherwise ... Read more

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