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  2. HBCU band - Wikipedia

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    A Historically Black College and University marching band (also known as a HBCU band) is the marching band sponsored by a historically black college or university.A distinctive "HBCU-style" of marching band originated in the American South in the 1940s through the blending of earlier traditions of military music and minstrel shows with a performance repertoire based on popular song.

  3. Drum major (marching band) - Wikipedia

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    A Tambour-Major of the French Imperial Guard (historical reenactment). The position of drum major originated in the British Army with the Corps of Drums in 1650. [citation needed] Military groups performed mostly duty calls and battle signals during that period, and a fife and drum corps, directed by the drum major, would use short pieces to communicate to field units.

  4. Drum major (military) - Wikipedia

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    Drum major of the Household Division (Welsh Guards) with bearskin headdress and ceremonial mace. A drum major in the military is the individual leading a military band or a field unit (corps of drums, fanfare band, pipe band or drum and bugle corps). It is an appointment, not a military rank.

  5. Marching band - Wikipedia

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    The first marching band formation, the Purdue All-American Marching Band "P Block". Instruments have been frequently used on the battlefield (for example the Iron Age carnyx and the medieval Ottoman military band [1]) but the modern marching band developed from European military bands formed in the Baroque period, partly influenced by the Ottoman tradition.

  6. What is an HBCU? A look at North Carolina’s historic Black ...

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    HBCU students started the sit-in movement in North Carolina in Greensboro. Homecoming Celebrations: Homecoming is a huge deal at HBCUs. The schools hold week-long events that bring together ...

  7. Marching percussion - Wikipedia

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    Musically, the snare drum section has the most rudimentarily challenging "book", or music. The instrument's role is that of the soprano line, typically carrying the melody or the main rhythm of the ensemble. Marching snare drums are deeper in size than snares normally used for orchestral or drum kit purposes. This gives the drum the big, full ...

  8. Corps of drums - Wikipedia

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    Military Corps of Drums are usually separate from the massed military bands of the unit or command that it is a part of, and are led by a drum major who is a junior officer. Until 1970, all Corps of Drums served to reinforce the massed bands in major parades, a tradition introduced in Moscow in the 1930s and influenced by the former Imperial ...

  9. List of historically black colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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    Most HBCU's are located in the Southern United States, where state laws generally required educational segregation until the 1950s and 1960s. Alabama has the highest number of HBCUs, followed by North Carolina , and then Georgia .