Below is an index of all the blog posts currently published on “Band Blasts From the Past” grouped by year. I do not mind if the posts are referenced in other material and full acknowledgement would be appreciated. Please feel free to contact me if more information on any of the posts is required or if you have any feedback.
2018:
- William Ryder: The first conductor of the Prahran & Malvern Tramways Employees Band (published 02/03/2018)
- Former brass bands of the City of Yarra: A brief history (published 03/03/2018)
- The politics of affiliation: Victorian Bands’ Association to the Victorian Bands’ League (published 15/03/2018)
- Victorian State school brass bands: their legacy lives on (published 08/04/2018)
- Early female brass bands in Australia: they were rare but they made their mark (published 22/04/2018) (Last updated: 19/03/2023)
- Instruments, sheet music and uniforms: how the bands of old obtained the essentials (published 13/05/2018)
- The unique position the Canberra City Band holds within the bands of the Southern Tablelands of NSW (published 01/07/2018)
- The A.B.C. Military Band: an ensemble of the times (published 12/07/2018)
- International band tours of the early 1900s: bringing music to Australia (published 14/10/2018)
- The first South Street band contest in October 1900 (published 22/12/2018)
2019:
- Bands on Australian islands: unique challenges in unique environments (published 31/01/2019)
- Names and status: the rare National and State bands (published 24/03/2019)
- Finding National consensus: how State band associations started working with each other (published 05/06/2019)
- Trans-Tasman connections: the lure of competition and performance. Part One – New Zealand Bands in Australia (published 03/08/2019)
- Trans-Tasman connections: the lure of competition and performance. Part Two – Australian Bands in New Zealand (published 03/08/2019)
- The poetry of brass bands (published 21/08/2019)
- Trans-continental connections: the brass bands of Broken Hill and Kalgoorlie (published 06/09/2019)
- Brass bands of the New South Wales Central West: Part 1: Bands for every town (published 07/12/2019)
- Brass bands of the New South Wales Central West: Part 2: Association and competition (published 07/12/2019)
- Brass bands and Christmas cheer: compliments of the season (published 22/12/2019)
2020:
- Cecil Clarence Mullen: Enthusiastic commentator, historian and statistician of brass and military bands (published 06/03/2020)
- Drummers and drums: perceptions of percussion in early Australian bands (published 24/03/2020)
- Choosing music and grading bands: The unenviable tasks of band associations and their music advisory boards (published 21/05/2020)
- Australian society and brass bands: The Pneumonic Influenza pandemic of 1919 (published 04/06/2020)
- Legitimate quirks of instrumentation: The inclusion of woodwinds in brass bands (published 04/07/2020)
- Australian bands, gramophones and wireless: adapting to new technology (published 03/08/2020)
- A room to call their own: the space and place for bands (published 01/09/2020)
- Testing times: the resilience of Australian bands during the Great Depression (published 18/10/2020)
- For bands and for community: admire the rotunda (published 04/12/2020)
- Providing historical context: “thirty” in the life of a band (published 28/12/2020)
2021:
- Influences from Britain: James Ord Hume and “The Besses Effect” (published 16/02/2021)
- Earning points: proper deportment of band member’s (published 03/11/2021)
2022:
- Training Bandmasters in the art of conducting: the problems, the status quo, and the plans (published 04/04/2022)
- A band, council, correspondence, and financial records: a case study of the Malvern City Band (published 31/07/2022)
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