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Taking up the story of bands and their development from the 1930s to the start of the new millennium, Roy Newsome discusses the contest tradition of brass bands

Roll With It is a firsthand account of the precarious lives of musicians in the Rebirth, Soul Rebels, and Hot 8 brass bands of New Orleans. These young men are

Learning to play by ear is a unique part of becoming a musician in New Orleans. This life history and photography project explores the traditional methods of te

Edward is very excited about taking the Brass Band to their concert. But then he has an accident and it looks like he won't get to hear them play, after all. Wh

Violet McNeal ran away from her family’s rural Minnesota farm in the late 1880s and fell under the spell of conman and patent medicine “doctor” Will Archi