Topics in Kansas History: Community & Daily Life

Music

Find resources on music.

• Facing the Music: The Turn-of-the-Century Hometown Band"

Letters, documents, objects, and photographs

• Band conductor's baton
• Child's band uniform
• Melodeon
• Parlor organ
• Kansas platinum record
• They're Playing Our Song: Community Bands (an online exhibit)
• Bands in Kansas (Photographs)

Bibliographies, finding aids, and guides to the collections

Kansas Heritage, our popular history magazine

• "Facing the Music: The Turn of the Century Hometown Band," Winter 1997

Kansas Kaleidoscope, our children's magazine

• "Kansas Celebrates All Year Long!" October/November 1999
• "Smarts: African American Creative Genius in the Arts," December 2001/January 2002

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