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John Philip Sousa leading the University of Pennsylvania Marching Band, November 22, 1930.
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John Philip Sousa stands on a platform while  leading the marching band. Both are on a field, outside of a badn building while spectators watch from the sidelines and the windows of the building.

Credit: Image donated by Corbis-Bettmann

By 1930, American marching bands no longer had the great popularity they enjoyed for close to a century, but the brass bands that Frank Johnson and John Philip Sousa had helped popularize would remain a fixture of American high school and college sporting events.

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