What did Americans do before they twerked, twisted, hully-gullied, moonwalked, strolled, shimmied, madisoned, cha-cha'd, charlestoned, lindy-hopped, nae-naed, or did it Gangnam Style? They marched.

John Phillips Sousa performed at Vaparaiso’s Memorial Opera House a few times. His music continues to march on in Valparaiso. The Windiana Concert Band, a professional-level concert band that’s played ...

The Millikin University Symphonic Band and conductor Gary Shaw are doing their part to keep the spirit, name and music of composer and bandleader John Philip Sousa alive. The band's "Stars and Stripes ...

Keith Brion does not want to be known as a John Philip Sousa imitator. Although he does try to bear something of a resemblance to the famous composer during performances, it is Sousa's music that ...

Newspapers, we all agree, are not what they were. The thing we don't agree on is why. Is it the internet? Or the decline in reading? Is it because reporters are biased? Or because reporters are so ...

A popular song for bands to play nowadays is “The Stars and Stripes Forever,” the national march of the United States.

LYNCHBURG, Va (WSET) — The Lynchburg Pops Community Band is back again with the Sousa Spectacular! This event will be celebrating the "American March King" through song along with others that we all ...

Oldtime, long-haired U.S. Army bandmasters had the horrors last week. A U.S. Army band (the 418th Army Air Forces Band from the Technical School at Yale) had suddenly, and disconcertingly, got rhythm.

Today in Music History for Nov. 6: In 1814, Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone, was born in Belgium.