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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. No dustcover. Ex library with sticker in front and back. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> If I were forced to identify a date on which the project reported in this book commenced I would have to select a day early in January 1974. For it was during that month that I began the library research that led eventually to a paper on amateur musi- cians which was to be presented at a conference the following spring. Having been in amateur music most of my life (except for a two-year interlude as a professional) I was well aware that amateurism there is defined as something special by those who participate in it. That January day marked the first opportunity in my academic career I could find to study amateur music systematically and to record some of my thoughts that had been (SP)