There's some good dancing from this Mid-South video from this high school band at a football game involving an African-American high school. In the South I guess.
It just so happens that I went to the homecoming football game at the local Rowan County High School in Kentucky last week. The football Vikings are bad enough that the players are said to bet on how badly they're going to get beaten. And they got beat 34-12 in a particularly dispiriting game.
My daughter is a percussionist in the band. In some ways, it was like the band at the African-American high school. The Rowan County Marching Band was in uniform, stationed in the far left of the bleachers, and sounding good.
No surprise there. Rowan County won the state high school band competition last year.
The Rowan County Marching Band didn't have the same kind of hard-driving dancers as the African-American band. In Rowan County's case, sexiness was limited to all the making-out that was going on while the band director was away.
Maybe I should have been in the band instead of playing football after all.
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I would venture to say that the only things that the marching band in the linked video has in common with the Rowan County HS marching band is the fact that they call themselves bands, and play instruments. Isn't Rowan County one of the most white bread counties in KY, if not the US?
This area is certainly white in ethnic make-up. I'd be surprised if the black population is as much as 2%. However, it's not "white bread" in the sense of having a stereotypically "white" suburban culture. I would say that the Rowan County band and the band from the African-American school are "comparable" and that it's interesting to do some comparison.
Caric - If you ever want to see some incredible bands, come to Indianapolis during the Circle City Classic and watching the marching band competition. We have gone for the last couple years.
Hey, Morehead State got a mention in Gregg Easterbrook's Tuesday Morning Quarterback column! The heighth of cool.
Secondly, Professor, I was in band (and chess club and science club) and our band was huge. Nonetheless, besides better scenery, there was no difference between your football enforced "celibacy" and my band-enforced "celibacy." I'd like to blame it on the Evangelical, fundamentalist upbringing, but, long after after I had rejected that, the Indiana nights were long and lonely!
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