Everything Band Podcast

Joshua Gailey is a PhD candidate in musicology at Yale University and his dissertation focuses on the factors that influenced the development of the school band movement during the Progressive Era. The fact that this episode falls on the birthday of John Philip Sousa is a happy coincidence! Topics: The institutionalization and standardization of the concert band in the early years of the 20th Century as part of the larger social reform movements of the era. The “Golden Age” of the wind band during the 19th Century and how it performed European music, particularly the high art that hadn’t come to America yet. The founding of NAfME and the early goals of music education during the Progressive Era. Early marching bands and the role of marching in the early development of school bands and the development of standardization through early band competitions sponsored by the MSNC. The role of instrument manufactures in the development of the school band and the reality behind the myth of Harold Hill. The historical