3 Dec 2025

Music with Dave Wilson: Brass bands and their social functions

From Nine To Noon, 11:10 am on 3 December 2025
massed brass band with tubas and cowboy hats

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Music correspondent Dave Wilson joins Kathryn to discuss brass band traditions in a few locations around the world.

He'll talk about how these instruments have evolved out of military activity to become connected to sites of social, political and economic activity. 

The loud sounds of collective brass, and the effects they have on human listening practices, create material possibilities for people coming together, for any number of reasons. 

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