The Ballard Sedentary Sousa Band boasts certain standout qualities that make them among the wackiest bands around. For instance, the 40-member band, which plays marching music, will not march under ...

Between 1900 and 1919, the John Philip Sousa Band and the sport of baseball were at the height of their popularity in America. Sousa built his music ensemble and its exceptional reputation around ...

CHICAGO — What Scott Joplin did for ragtime and Jelly Roll Morton for jazz, John Philip Sousa achieved for another expression of the American spirit: the march. More than that, he nurtured and ...

Patriotic occasions can hardly take place without "The Stars and Stripes Forever" and other snappy works by John Philip Sousa. Yet that's all that most anyone knows about the United States' March King ...

In honor of the Fourth of July, Here & Now's Robin Young takes a listen to the music of John Philip Sousa with Keith Brion, Sousa lover and founder of the New Sousa Band. Brion has just finished ...