Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.college
Subject: Bands: 2nd RFD: rec.arts.marching.drumcorps and rec.arts.marching.misc
From: fath1@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Fath)
Date: 10 Oct 92 15:11:41 EDT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

Second Request for Discussion

Newsgroup: rec.arts.marching.drumcorps and rec.arts.marching.misc

Purpose: 

rec.arts.marching.drumcorps: Discussion of Drum & Bugle Corps
rec.arts.marching.misc: Discussion of Marching Bands, Color Guards, etc.

Why:

The proposed purpose of the rec.arts.marching hierarchy is to hold
discussions about the marching-related performance arts -- Drum & Bugle
Corps, Marching Bands, Color Guards, etc. The general emphasis of these
groups are the youth activities which are focused on a competetive season.

The Drum & Bugle Corps (D&B) competetive season is held over the summer.
This year, USENET discussion of D&B has been held in the newsgroup
alt.drumcorps.  There was high-quality discussion of the competetive season,
etc. from at least 100 different posters. We have a FAQ which has been
posted to news.answers.

The age of most performers in the top D&B corps is 16-21; many current and
ex-members of D&B Corps have access to USENET. While these marching
activities are primarily held in the US and Canada, there are also Drum
Corps, Marching Bands, and Color Guards in Europe and Japan.  We feel that
rec.arts.marching.drumcorps would be a viable newsgroup.

The purpose of rec.arts.marching.misc is to hold discussion for all other
marching-related performance arts. We are not proposing individual groups
for color guard or marching bands because there is not consistent USENET
traffic in these groups at this time. On the other hand, creation of a misc
group now will give us a workable hierarchy today and a managable path to
expansion, should it be warranted in the future.

The rec.arts.marching groups are not intended to discuss marching techniques
for military activity (e.g. staggering marching steps while crossing bridges
to avoid the creation of potentially destructive harmonic waves). Discussion
of any information of potential military value is forbidden. Discussion of
recreational and performance marching in the military (e.g. The US Service
Academys' Drum Corps) is permitted. Also, discussion is generally limited to
units that bring motion to their performance -- concert bands and orchestra
performances will generally not be discussed in rec.arts.marching.

Naming Options: During informal discussion, it was suggested that the group
be either directly under rec, or under rec.music. The rec.arts hierarchy is
recommended here, because music is not always present in these performances,
but "marching" is. Also, the word "march" is used to describe what
participants in these activities do, whether or not they're performing a
rigid, military two-step.

Discussion of this proposal should take place in news.groups.

--phil
pae@blackcat.stortek.com


-- 
MM   MM FFFFF 	Michael Fath		fath1@husc.harvard.edu
M M M M F	Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
M  M  M FFF     Harvard Medical School         
M     M F       Boston, MA 02115				**Enjoy life!              
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.college