{"id":{"repo_id":"uiuc","oai_identifier":"oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/97299"},"canonical_url":"https://search.dev.ndltd.org/etd/uiuc/oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/97299","repository":{"repo_id":"uiuc","name":"University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign","base_url":"https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh"},"display":{"title":"“I think we sounded black!”: space and community in Black drum and bugle corps","abstract":"This thesis examines three Black drum and bugle corps from the Civil Rights era of the nineteen-fifties and sixties: the Carter Cadets and the CMCC Warriors Drum and Bugle Corps from New York City, NY and the Washington VIPs from Washington, D.C. It uses historical and ethnographic methods to present a history of Black corps, mainly based on interviews with alumni. By using theories of space and community, the goal is to analyze how urban planning made way for the formation of Black corps in inner cities. These marching ensembles served two purposes within their communities: to teach youth valuable life skills to benefit their socioeconomic advancement, and to protect them from likely life-threatening situations, including drugs and violence, by showing them how to embrace their Black identities and create awareness of different opportunities. This significance of this study is to present a little- researched performing ensemble within the United States, and base it historically during the Civil rights era to show one way Black communities coped with urban planning and the lack of socioeconomic opportunities in their neighborhoods.","abstract_html":"This thesis examines three Black drum and bugle corps from the Civil Rights era of the nineteen-fifties and sixties: the Carter Cadets and the CMCC Warriors Drum and Bugle Corps from New York City, NY and the Washington VIPs from Washington, D.C. It uses historical and ethnographic methods to present a history of Black corps, mainly based on interviews with alumni. By using theories of space and community, the goal is to analyze how urban planning made way for the formation of Black corps in inner cities. These marching ensembles served two purposes within their communities: to teach youth valuable life skills to benefit their socioeconomic advancement, and to protect them from likely life-threatening situations, including drugs and violence, by showing them how to embrace their Black identities and create awareness of different opportunities. This significance of this study is to present a little- researched performing ensemble within the United States, and base it historically during the Civil rights era to show one way Black communities coped with urban planning and the lack of socioeconomic opportunities in their neighborhoods.","abstract_has_math":false,"creators":["Jorge, Jamil"],"institution":"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign","degree_name":"M.Mus.","degree_level":"Thesis","degree_discipline":"Music","degree_department":null,"school":null,"contributors":["Solis, Gabriel","Magee, Gayle"],"advisors":[],"committee_chairs":[],"committee_members":[],"year":2017,"date_issued":"2017-08-10T19:14:43Z","date_published":"2017-08-10T19:14:43Z","updated_at":"2026-07-22T22:24:32Z","subjects":["Black drum and bugle corps","Drum and bugle corps","Space","Community"],"languages":["en"],"rights":["Copyright 2017 Jamil Jorge"],"rights_urls":[],"identifier_entries":[]},"links":{"outbound_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/2142/97299","outbound_label":"Handle","outbound_source":"dc:identifier"},"metadata_groups":[{"id":"people","label":"People","entries":[{"key":"dc:contributor","label":"Contributor","values":["Solis, Gabriel","Magee, Gayle"]},{"key":"dc:creator","label":"Author","values":["Jorge, Jamil"]}]},{"id":"academic_context","label":"Academic Context","entries":[{"key":"dc:date","label":"Dc Date","values":["2017-08-10T19:14:43Z","2017-04-25","2017-05"]},{"key":"dc:type","label":"Dc Type","values":["text"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_discipline","label":"Discipline","values":["Music"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_level","label":"Degree Level","values":["Thesis"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_name","label":"Degree Name","values":["M.Mus."]},{"key":"thesis:institution_name","label":"Thesis Institution Name","values":["University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"]}]},{"id":"subjects_keywords","label":"Subjects and Keywords","entries":[{"key":"dc:subject","label":"Dc Subject","values":["Black drum and bugle corps","Drum and bugle corps","Space","Community"]}]},{"id":"language_rights","label":"Language and Rights","entries":[{"key":"dc:language","label":"Dc Language","values":["en"]},{"key":"dc:rights","label":"Dc Rights","values":["Copyright 2017 Jamil Jorge"]}]},{"id":"identifiers","label":"Identifiers","entries":[{"key":"dc:identifier","label":"Identifier","values":["http://hdl.handle.net/2142/97299"]}]},{"id":"additional","label":"Additional Metadata","entries":[{"key":"dc:description","label":"Description","values":["This thesis examines three Black drum and bugle corps from the Civil Rights era of the nineteen-fifties and sixties: the Carter Cadets and the CMCC Warriors Drum and Bugle Corps from New York City, NY and the Washington VIPs from Washington, D.C. It uses historical and ethnographic methods to present a history of Black corps, mainly based on interviews with alumni. By using theories of space and community, the goal is to analyze how urban planning made way for the formation of Black corps in inner cities. These marching ensembles served two purposes within their communities: to teach youth valuable life skills to benefit their socioeconomic advancement, and to protect them from likely life-threatening situations, including drugs and violence, by showing them how to embrace their Black identities and create awareness of different opportunities. This significance of this study is to present a little- researched performing ensemble within the United States, and base it historically during the Civil rights era to show one way Black communities coped with urban planning and the lack of socioeconomic opportunities in their neighborhoods.","Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2017-08-10 without embargo terms","The student, Jamil Jorge, accepted the attached license on 2017-04-04 at 13:57.","The student, Jamil Jorge, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2017-04-04 at 14:03.","This Thesis was approved for publication on 2017-04-25 at 17:24.","DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10645 on 2017-08-10 at 13:38:44","Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-10T19:14:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 JORGE-THESIS-2017.pdf: 2856340 bytes, checksum: cf53a1686f05dee1b13906f341b14c2c (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4208 bytes, checksum: da646ee06c15a2dfdc9999bcac4dbbd9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-25"]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["“I think we sounded black!”: space and community in Black drum and bugle corps"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Solis, Gabriel","Magee, Gayle"],"dc:creator":["Jorge, Jamil"],"dc:date":["2017-08-10T19:14:43Z","2017-04-25","2017-05"],"dc:description":["This thesis examines three Black drum and bugle corps from the Civil Rights era of the nineteen-fifties and sixties: the Carter Cadets and the CMCC Warriors Drum and Bugle Corps from New York City, NY and the Washington VIPs from Washington, D.C. It uses historical and ethnographic methods to present a history of Black corps, mainly based on interviews with alumni. By using theories of space and community, the goal is to analyze how urban planning made way for the formation of Black corps in inner cities. These marching ensembles served two purposes within their communities: to teach youth valuable life skills to benefit their socioeconomic advancement, and to protect them from likely life-threatening situations, including drugs and violence, by showing them how to embrace their Black identities and create awareness of different opportunities. This significance of this study is to present a little- researched performing ensemble within the United States, and base it historically during the Civil rights era to show one way Black communities coped with urban planning and the lack of socioeconomic opportunities in their neighborhoods.","Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2017-08-10 without embargo terms","The student, Jamil Jorge, accepted the attached license on 2017-04-04 at 13:57.","The student, Jamil Jorge, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2017-04-04 at 14:03.","This Thesis was approved for publication on 2017-04-25 at 17:24.","DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10645 on 2017-08-10 at 13:38:44","Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-10T19:14:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 JORGE-THESIS-2017.pdf: 2856340 bytes, checksum: cf53a1686f05dee1b13906f341b14c2c (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4208 bytes, checksum: da646ee06c15a2dfdc9999bcac4dbbd9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-25"],"dc:format":["application/pdf"],"dc:identifier":["http://hdl.handle.net/2142/97299"],"dc:language":["en"],"dc:rights":["Copyright 2017 Jamil Jorge"],"dc:subject":["Black drum and bugle corps","Drum and bugle corps","Space","Community"],"dc:title":["“I think we sounded black!”: space and community in Black drum and bugle corps"],"dc:type":["text"],"thesis:degree_discipline":["Music"],"thesis:degree_level":["Thesis"],"thesis:degree_name":["M.Mus."],"thesis:institution_name":["University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"]},"updated_at":"2026-07-22T22:24:32Z"}