Topics: Marching : Drum and Bugle Corps
The Arts/Music/Marching/Drumcorps category contains general and relevant information to the whole drum corps activity. Drumcorps, or more accurately Drum and Bugle Corps (D&BC), is an activity based from the early fife and drum and bugle bands of the late 19th and early 20th century. Members of many of these were grown men. Later the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), and other civic organizations created their own auxiliary youth groups or junior corps. Over time, these senior and junior groups changed their venue from marching in parades to performing precision drills for competition. The VFW and American Legion were the de-facto rule makers for this activity. In the early 1970's, faced with stringent rules imposed on the junior corps by the VFW, and an activity that was dying, several top junior D&BC's formed Drum Corps International (DCI) as an alternate sanctioning organization. DCI was almost immediately successful and allowed greater artistic freedom to the activity that has continued to this day and allowed Junior Drum and Bugle Corps to be the most successful form of this activity. Membership in a Junior Corps is restricted to those 21 and under on the last day of the DCI Final competition each year. Senior Drum Corps look to a similar organization, Drum Corps Associates, for guidance. Many members in a Senior Corps are those who "aged-out" of a Junior Corps. Many Senior Corps will allow membership below 21 years. Junior D&BC's should be listed under the Junior Corps category. Senior D&BC's should be listed under the Senior Corps category. "Grab Bag, Trivia, and other Artifacts" contains miscellany about drum corps. Personal diaries for instance. "History and Archives" is for pages devoted to expired corps, information on competition seasons, corps playlists, etc.
Alumni Corps
There are active groups made up of alumni from junior d&B corps which like to perform d&bc type shows.
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Inactive Corps
Over the years many drum and bugles corps have been started and just as many have stopped operations.
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Junior Corps
All Junior Corps and associated activities belong in this category Junior Drum and Bugle Corps (D&BC or Drum Corps)) is a competitive drum and bugle corps activity consisting of members up to the age of 21.
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Senior Corps
The Arts/Music/Marching/Drumcorps/Senior_Corps category contains general and relevant information to the Senior Drum and Bugle Corps activity.
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World Corps
Asia,
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