On crisp autumn Saturday mornings in Ann Arbor, Michigan, when the air is
especially still, one can hear distant brass fanfares and a steady cadence of drums
from across town. The members of the University of Michigan Marching Band
practise field formations and repertory for the pre-game and half-time shows that
are a hallmark of high school and college football in the United States. Across
the Atlantic Ocean, in Belfast, the summer months are punctuated by a steady
cadence of drums and the piercing sound of fifes, signalling an altogether different
social ritual of an Orange Order Parade in a show of Protestant political power.
Elsewhere around the world similar sounds – brass, woodwinds and percussion –
are iconic of musical and social activities in their communities: military parades in
South Korea, brass band contests in England, jazz funerals in New Orleans, Roman
Catholic processions in Latin America, competitive bandstand performances in
Portugal, joyous wedding processions in India and more.
On crisp autumn Saturday mornings in Ann Arbor, Michigan, when the air isespecially still, one can hear distant brass fanfares and a steady cadence of drumsfrom across town. The members of the University of Michigan Marching Bandpractise field formations and repertory for the pre-game and half-time shows thatare a hallmark of high school and college football in the United States. Acrossthe Atlantic Ocean, in Belfast, the summer months are punctuated by a steadycadence of drums and the piercing sound of fifes, signalling an altogether differentsocial ritual of an Orange Order Parade in a show of Protestant political power.Elsewhere around the world similar sounds – brass, woodwinds and percussion –are iconic of musical and social activities in their communities: military parades inSouth Korea, brass band contests in England, jazz funerals in New Orleans, RomanCatholic processions in Latin America, competitive bandstand performances inPortugal, joyous wedding processions in India and more.
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