The W.D. Packard Concert Band is taking its “March” concert literally. Sunday’s performance will focus on the marches composed by John Philip Sousa, and each song will be directed by a Packard Band ...

CHICAGO - What Scott Joplin did for ragtime and Jelly Roll Morton for jazz, John Philip Sousa achieved for another expression of the American spirit — the march. But unlike Joplin and Morton, who ...

What did Americans do before they twerked, twisted, hully-gullied, moonwalked, strolled, shimmied, madisoned, cha-cha'd, charlestoned, lindy-hopped, nae-naed, or did it Gangnam Style? They marched.

correctionAn earlier version of this story misidentified the rank of the music director of the United States Marine Band. Jason K. Fettig is a colonel, not a lieutenant colonel. The story has been ...

It's not every day America turns 250. Such a celebration calls for a gift. And USA TODAY has one — for our readers, and for the 200 other newspapers in the USA TODAY network. A march. Back in the day, ...