DennisCole

Greetings everyone, Please follow the Drum Corps Heritage Society on Facebook. www.facebook.com/drumcorpsheritagesociety Founded as The Drum Corps Heritage Project, the newly incorporated Drum Corps Heritage Society (DCHS) is the most comprehensive thematic repository of materials related to the history of the North American drum and bugle corps. The mission of the DCHS is to collect, preserve and provide access to these resources for scholars, educators, students, journalists, and the general public in an effort to broaden the awareness and understanding of the drum and bugle corps, its historical roots and evolution, and its impact in the larger history and cultural fabric of North American music. The DCHS is committed to creating a facility for the permanent storage, archive and display of all historical records, physical artifacts and ephemera related to the history of the North American drum and bugle corps. To do so, we seek to build a non-circulating, special-collections library and archives of all primary- and secondary-source print materials, as well as a stationary museum with traveling multimedia gallery for exhibiting our collections of three-dimensional objects to the public. Beyond public exhibitions, we strive to broaden our educational mission through in-house scholastic programs, participation in academic and professional conferences, and interdisciplinary research, specifically The Oral History Project in which we plan to conduct “Alan Lomax-style” research centering on personal interviews, conversations and the documentation (in audio and video formats) of collective memory and oral history of past and present drum and bugle corps participants. If you are interested in donating to the DCHS, please contact me at: decole2@gmail.com All the best, Dennis Cole, PhD Executive Director, The Drum Corps Heritage Society decole2@gmail.com

Founded in 2011 as the Drum Corps Heritage Project, we are now incorporated in Ohio as the Drum Corps Heritage Society, Inc. For more information, look for us on Facebook. There you can see parts of our historical collection and read up on our goals and mission. If you would like to donate to the Drum Corps Heritage Society, please contact me at: decole2@gmail.com. www.facebook.com/drumcorpsheritagesociety. All the best, Dennis Cole, PhD Executive Director, The Drum Corps Heritage Society decole2@gmail.com

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For those interested in purchasing a copy of the book, Competitve Drum Corps in the United States: An Ethnographic Field Study, please see the following: http://www.facebook.com/groups/116435951765652/ Send me an email at: decole2@gmail.com and I will reply with a book order form. For more questions, please send me an email. All the best, Dennis Cole, Ph.D. Founder and Executive Director, The Drum Corps Heritage Project

I have started The Drum Corps Heritage Project, for more information see the following:www.facebook.com/pages/The-Drum-Corps-Heritage-Project/270451626323978 Founded in 2012, The Drum Corps Heritage Project (DCHP) is a historical society which seeks to document, preserve and make available the records of the drum and bugle corps community throughout North America, past and present, by way of public advocacy and education. This consortium consists of paid and volunteer staff members who are knowledgable about the traditions specific to the history of the North American drum and bugle corps. In time, we seek to develop a museum for the preservation of artifacts and ephemera from the drum corps activity, a special-collections archive for ongoing research and scholarship, and a performance hall to keep the music of the drum and bugle corps alive. For more information, or if you would like to assist us in getting the project off the ground, please email me at decole2@gmail.com. All the best, Dennis Cole, Ph.D. Founder & Executive Director, The Drum Corps Heritage Project

Please see the latest efforts to acheive such goals. I have started The Drum Corps Heritage Project, for more information see the following: www.facebook.com/pages/The-Drum-Corps-Heritage-Project/270451626323978 Founded in 2012, The Drum Corps Heritage Project (DCHP) is a historical society which seeks to document, preserve and make available the records of the drum and bugle corps community throughout North America, past and present, by way of public advocacy and education. This consortium consists of paid and volunteer staff members who are knowledgable about the traditions specific to the history of the North American drum and bugle corps. In time, we seek to develop a museum for the preservation of artifacts and ephemera from the drum corps activity, a special-collections archive for ongoing research and scholarship, and a performance hall to keep the music of the drum and bugle corps alive. For more information, or if you would like to assist us in getting the project off the ground, please email me at decole2@gmail.com. All the best, Dennis Cole, Ph.D. Founder & Executive Director, The Drum Corps Heritage Project