Talk That Music Talk: Passing on Brass Band Music in New Orleans the Traditional Way

by Bruce Sunpie Barnes and Rachel Breunlin

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 teaching brass band music in the city that gave birth to jazz. Through in-depth interviews, the bands, social and pleasure clubs, schools, churches, and other neighborhood institutions that have supported the music, and the spirit embodied in it, come to life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608011070
• ISBN13: 9781608011070
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Uno Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 4.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 12.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up