Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The drum major of the Ohio State University performs a backbend in 2016. Folklorist Danille Lindquist has described the drum major backbend, and the audience reaction that accompanies it in the form of cheering and applause, as part of a series of rituals associated with college football designed to seek and elicit popular consent for the staging of the athletic contest that follows.
After a dramatic pause, the drum major's plume - or on special occasions, such as before the annual rivalry game against Michigan, the entire top of the drum major's hat - touches the turf, just before the band begins to play two choruses of "Buckeye Battle Cry" while marching toward the south end zone. The drum major reaches the end zone and ...
Main Menu. News. News
Clayton Callender first got interested in being a drum major after watching TBDBITL perform as a high school freshman.
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.
The band hall burned to the ground in 1958, and a new hall was quickly built that is still used by the band.[1] The Ballet Corps (now known as the Golden Girls) was added by director Thomas Tyra in 1959, and the band's pregame performance that remains to this day was created in the 1960s by director William F. Swor.[2] Former director of bands ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
Aug. 19—It's been a jam-packed last two weeks. High school sports officially began Aug. 7. And since then, area teams have blasted out of the gate as softball, baseball, and volleyball seasons ...