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) (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) (updated: 13/04/2024)
- 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)
2023:
- A pastime with a purpose: band music in our institutions and the fourth prison band in the world (published: 23/04/2023)
- Managing the march cards (and other such material): roles of the amateur band librarian (published: 02/11/2023)
2024:
- Hype versus reality: why the Malvern Tramways Band never travelled to the United Kingdom (published: 28/02/2024)
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