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Maureen V. Reagan – ProQuest LLC, 2019
On November 15, 1981, the University of Illinois British Brass Band performed its first concert, conducted by University of Illinois Assistant Director of Bands James Curnow. The ensemble's antecedents lay in the brass bands established in Victorian England that were populated by members of the working classes, while its 1980s founding occurred in…
Descriptors: Musicians, Universities, Music Activities, Educational History
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Barr, Jeanne Polk – Social Education, 2009
Growing up in an era when protest at national political conventions is carefully contained in "free-speech zones" (often physically removed from the site of the official conventions), students today may have a difficult time conceptualizing the tumultuous scene that was the 1968 Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago. Fueled by…
Descriptors: Case Studies, United States History, War, Foreign Countries