Hobos, Rubes, and Clowns: Comic Brass Bands in early 1900s America

Author: Hal Rammel

Publisher: Penumbra Music & Books (2024)

Brass Bands dressed in eccentric costumes parading fro twon functions all across rural America in the early 1900s is a rarely examined phenomenon of the more widespread brass band movement that began in mid 1800s. As a companiion study to Hal Rammel's Nowhere in America (University of Illinois Press, 1990) the essay introducing this collection of real photo postcards studies the history and context of this otherwise undocumented tradition.