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College Bands of the Arkansas Heartland
T. T. Tyler Thompson
From the
author of The
University of Arkansas Razorback Band: A History, 1874–2004
comes this new book about the birth, growth, and development
of other successful bands at Arkansas colleges that continue
to have marching and concert band programs on their campuses.
T.T. Tyler Thompson takes the reader on a journey from the
late nineteenth century through the early twenty-first century
as bands became an integral part of the state’s budding
campuses of higher education and provided a performance outlet
for thousands of college students, setting the musical stage
for their respective campuses’ educational experience.
T.
T. Tyler Thompson, a member of the University of
Arkansas Razorback Band from 1967 to 1971, graduated from
the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville with a bachelor
of arts degree in chemistry and German. After teaching in
public schools in Pine Bluff and North Little Rock, he enrolled
at the University of Houston College of Optometry where he
received his bachelor of science and doctor of optometry degrees.
Since 1982 Thompson has resided in Little Rock where he practices
optometry and edits optometric publications.
January
2007
$30.00 (s)
8 1/2 x 11; cloth, 408 pages, 1474 images
978-09768007-2-9
Distributed for
Phoenix International.
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