Tag: drum and bugle corps

reinventing the concert paradigm

Posted Mendel Lee2 CommentsPosted in blogposts

It’s a pretty easy statement to make that the evolution of technology has contributed greatly to the evolution of entertainment. The video arcade industry crashed once the home console market was able to match and surpass its capabilities. The traveling circus as a unique exotic entertainment show is pretty much extinct now as people can be offered similar or superior entertainment through easier means. And “classical music” (as most people term it) concerts, particularly orchestra […]

Case Study: The Jersey Surf model of drum and bugle corps – part 2

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Read Part 1 — Given those sorts of struggles on top of other small or big struggles that they face, questions arise: should they have stayed in open class? should they have reached for a longer term goal of becoming world class but with more of a full tour model? is this “in between” model that they’re employing a failed model for the world class paradigm? The answers to these questions are difficult to answer […]

Case Study: The Jersey Surf model of drum and bugle corps – part 1

Posted Mendel Lee1 CommentPosted in blogposts

The Jersey Surf Drum and Bugle Corps are in their cinderella year in World Class this year, and as an individual who has some personal investment in the corps as a former staff member and the mentor of one of the current staff members who likes to chat it up with me, i felt like it was worth doing a writeup of their unique position in the world of DCI and drum corps of today. […]