“They had enrolled in the summer band camp operated by the Marching 100. For the campers, these eight days offered a kind of initiation; for the band, they offered the chance to recruit future members and to spread its ecstatic performance style literally around the world.”
“In the nation’s historically black colleges, marching bands have long provided far more than “The Star-Spangled Banner†for football crowds, and none, arguably, has grown more famous than Florida A&M’s.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/us/23bandcamp.html?scp=1&sq=marching%20bands&st=cse—–