The early age of national marching band contest

This academic article aims to 1) study the history of the national marching band contest; 2) the development of the national marching band contest. The results showed that National Marching Band Contest has been held from 1982 until the present. The contest in the early age from 1982 to 1993 is divided into three categories: Category A, Men, Category B, Men and Women, Category C, Women. The winning marching band will receive a royal trophy. In addition, the marching band has to play three songs at the Supachalasai Stadium: royal song (Rama IX), Thai Thao song or Prelude song, and a selected song according to preference, continuing with the march music: sports ground music, and Thai Military Bank (TMB) song which is a compulsory one. The marching band contest has been developed because the contest management activity is an important factor in the development of standards for marching bands to grow rapidly at the national level from an early age to the present.

Leadership and tempo perturbation affect coordination in medium-sized groups

In marching bands, sports, dance and virtually all human group behaviour, we coordinate our actions with others. Coordinating actions in time and space can act as a social glue, facilitating bonding among people. However, much of our understanding about coordination dynamics is based on research into dyadic interactions. Little is known about the nature of the sensorimotor underpinnings and social bonding outcomes of coordination in medium-sized groups—the type of groups, in which most everyday teamwork takes place. In this study, we explored how the presence of a leader and an unexpected perturbation influence coordination and cohesion in a naturalistic setting. In groups of seven, participants were instructed to walk in time to an auditory pacing signal. We found that the presence of a reliable leader enhanced coordination with the target tempo, which was disrupted when the leader abruptly changed their movement tempo. This effect was not observed on coordination with the group members. Moreover, participants’ perceptions of being a follower and group cooperativeness increased in the presence of a leader. This study extends our knowledge about coordination beyond previous work on dyads. We discuss our results in light of sensorimotor coupling and social cohesion theories of coordination in groups.

TEACHING STUDENT LEADERSHIP, ETHICS, AND GROUP RESPONSIBILITY FOR HAZING PREVENTION: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY

Hazing is generally defined as any activity expected of someone joining or participating in a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses, or endangers them regardless of a person’s willingness to participate (Hoover, 1999) and has been documented among college students in groups ranging from athletics to marching bands to fraternities and sororities (Allen & Madden, 2008). This investigation examined attitudes and perceptions about hazing for students in a leadership development program compared to their peers. Both groups participated in an online hazing prevention education module and completed pre- and post-surveys. Data were analyzed using statistical two-tailed t-tests for analysis. Though the literature on hazing is highly suggestive of linkages between leadership development and hazing mitigation, it appears this may not be the case. Findings from this investigation revealed that leadership students at this institution responded less strongly against hazing when compared with their peers in the general student body.

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE USE OF BATTERY PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS WITH THE LOW BACK PAIN MYOGENIC COMPLAINT OF THE PERCUSSION DIVISION PLAYERS OF THE MARCHING BANDS IN DENPASAR AND BADUNG

Background: Low back pain (LBP) is a kind of complaint which is easily found in human’s daily life. An activity of carrying something can be one of factors causing the low back pain. Many people uphold some things more than the normal limit by using a wrong way and even doing it for a long duration. A battery percussion player is required to uphold and sustain a battery percussion instrument with an upright standing position and for quite a long time. It can cause the low back pain. Purpose: to find out the correlation between the use of battery percussion instruments with the low back pain myogenic complaint of the percussion division players. Method: This study used an observational analytic method with cross sectional approach which applied a saturation sampling technique. The number of the sample was 90 people divided into 3 groups: snare drum, quint tom/ multi toms and bass drum in which each group contained of 30 people. The data collection was conducted by filling out a questionnaire to diagnose and measure the pain scale with VAS. The hypothesis test was done using bivariate analysis with a chi-square test. Result: The result of the study shows that the bivariate analysis with the chi-square test finds out that the value is p < 0.05. Furthermore, the low back pain percentage of the snare drum is 63.4%; the quint tom/multi toms is 100%; and, the bass drum is 90.1%. Conclusion: Based on the result of the study, it can be concluded that there is a correlation between the use of battery percussion instruments and the low back pain myogenic complaint of the percussion division players of the marching bands in Denpasar and Badung. Key Words: Low Back Pain, Marching Band, Battery Percussion, VAS.

“This Is Ghetto Row”: Musical Segregation in American College Football

A historical overview of college football's participants exemplifies the diversification of mainstream American culture from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. The same cannot be said for the sport's audience, which remains largely white American. Gerald Gems maintains that football culture reinforces the construction of American identity as “an aggressive, commercial, white, Protestant, male society.” Ken McLeod echoes this perspective in his description of college football's musical soundscape, “white-dominated hard rock, heavy metal, and country music—in addition to marching bands.” This article examines musical segregation in college football, drawing from case studies and interviews conducted in 2013 with university music coordinators from the five largest collegiate athletic conferences in the United States. These case studies reveal several trends in which music is used as a tool to manipulate and divide college football fans and players along racial lines, including special sections for music associated with blackness, musical selections targeted at recruits, and the continued position of the marching band—a European military ensemble—as the musical representative of the sport. These areas reinforce college football culture as a bastion of white strength despite the diversity among player demographics.

“A Christy Minstrel, a Harlequin, or an Ancient Persian”?: Opera, Hindustani Classical Music, and the Origins of the Popular South Asian “Musical”

The story of South Asian colonial modernity and music offers up a multidirectional and polymorphous conceptual terrain featuring, among many agents, Hindustani royalty, touring minstrel and burlesque troupes, Jesuit missionaries and orientalists, and not least, social reformists. Nevertheless, scholarship on the history of Hindustani music consistently traces its development through classicization against the rise of Hindu nationalism while overlooking other palpable clues in the colonial past. This article argues for a substantial reevaluation of colonial South Asian music by positing an alternative and hitherto invisible auditory stimulus in colonial Asia's aural landscape: opera. Janaki Bakhle contends that “as a musical form, opera put down even fewer roots than did orchestral, instrumental Western classical music,” even though she subsequently states that “Western orchestration did become part of modern ceremonial activities, and it moved into film music even as it was played by ersatz marching bands.” Bakhle further argues that Hindustani music underwent processes of sanitization and systematization within a Hindu nation-making project, a view that has been complicated by historians such as Tejaswini Niranjana. Niranjana describes how scholarship that focuses exclusively on the codification or nationalization of Hindustani music through the interpellation of a Hindu public neglects “sedimented forms of musical persistence.” Not dissimilarly, Richard David Williams highlights how the singular emphasis on the movement of Hindustani music reform risks reducing the heterogeneous and complex musicological traditions in the colonial period to the output of a single, monolithic, middle-class “new elite.” Previous scholarship, he argues, concentrates on “one player in a larger ‘economy’ of musical consumption.” Following these calls for more textured perspectives on South Asian musical cultures, I suggest a somewhat heretical thesis: that opera functioned as a common mediating stimulus for both the colonial reinscription of Hindustani music as classical as well as the emergence of popular pan-Asian musical genres such as “Bollywood” music.

Everything’s Coming Up Roses for Pasadena Seismologists

Using fiber-optic cables, a new seismic network charts vibrations associated with the Rose Parade’s massive floats and marching bands.

Press Philanthropy and the Politics of Want

To better recruit and discipline their young distribution force, newspaper publishers and circulation managers in the 1880s became pioneers of corporate welfare. Led by Joseph Pulitzer in St. Louis, E. W. Scripps in Detroit and Cincinnati, Victor Lawson in Chicago, and George Booth in Grand Rapids, Michigan, they organized newsboy banquets, excursions, clubs, schools, and marching bands. They also sponsored newsboy boxing tournaments and fielded newsboy baseball teams. A dozen eastern newspapers formed their own newsboy baseball league. Newsboys took full advantage of these programs, as well as the newsboy homes and reading rooms founded by the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, but they also organized unions, struck for better pay and working conditions, and participated in political campaigns and protests. Ultimately, they sought justice over charity.

Gambaran Ekstrakurikuler di Taman Kanak-kanak Telkom School Padang

This study aims to describe extracurricular activities at the Telkom School Kindergarten in Padang. This research uses descriptive method using qualitative. Informants from this study were principals, class teachers and extracurricular teachers. Data collection techniques in this study used observation techniques, interview techniques and documentation techniques. Data analysis techniques used are data triangulation techniques. There are five extracurricular activities carried out namely hafidz extracurricular activities, dancing, swimming, computer, and marching bands. The result of the study are generally known that extracurricular activities at the Padang School Kindergarten in Padang have been ongoing. The teacher has carried out planning, implementation, and evaluation that is able to develop talents and channel children’s interests trough scheduled activities even though there are still shortcomings in their implementation.