Brass Unbound

"Rob Boonzajer Flaes is an anthropologist at the University of Amsterdam and a musician. In Brass Unbound he describes with the aid of photographs and personal on-the-spot observations how fragments of the nineteenth century brass bands have developed in their own right. They provided the fertile soil on which African highlife music, Indian and Nepalese band parties, Surinamese winti bands and the bamboo and zinc orchestras of Minahasa came to blossom."--BOOK JACKET.