The Wind-Bands - A social history of a global phenomenon #385532

Traditionally, if we exclude the military field, the Wind-Band has been considered a popular and folkloric musical expression linked to civil, ritual, religious and, above all, local customs and traditions. This historical survey on the spread of the phenomenon worldwide, albeit with different methods, concentrations and meanings, highlights not only an important fact, namely that the band is the most widespread phenomenon of musical aggregation at global level, but also many similarities, contaminations and historical crossings between the ensembles around the world. In a period in which the historical memory is lost at the same speed with which it is possible to find information on the Internet, a comparative and synthetic analysis can be useful to retrieve all those symbolic and cultural meanings that with the Wind-Band have been interiorized, contributing, often in an evident and fundamental way, to shape the current society.