In the days before Alexa, radio and the phonograph, there were community bands. The national craze for brass bands began in the 1800s, and as Kansas ascended to statehood, the settling of the prairie was accompanied by live musical entertainment – first of the military, then later, non-military genres.
Musical memories
Boley's book traces local bands, bandmasters
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