Discoursing Sweet Music: Brass Bands and Community Life in Turn-of-the-Century Pennsylvania

University of Illinois Press

“In Discoursing Sweet Music, Kenneth Kreitner has chronicled five years in the life of community bands in the area surrounding his hometown of Honesdale, Pennsylvania. He relates what the movement was about and shows how important it was, both to the communities in which the bands were active and to the band members themselves."