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The Marching Chiefs of Florida State University : the band that never lost a halftime show / Bill F. Faucett.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML28.T22 M374 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Faucett, Bill F., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marching Chiefs--History.
- Marching Chiefs.
- Marching bands--Florida--Tallahassee--History.
- Marching bands.
- History.
- Florida--Tallahassee.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 223 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
- Summary:
- "This story of the Chiefs takes into account the growth of FSU and its School of Music, the rise of "Big Football" in Tallahassee, and the transformations on campus and in American society that affected them"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I Marching Chiefs One Time!
- 1 College Town (to 1937) 9
- Higher Education in Tallahassee 9
- "Femina Perfecta": The Florida State College for Women (1909) 16
- 2 Picture and Sound (1938-1946) 21
- The Tally Troopers 21
- Two Cellists 24
- "Band Pageantry" and War 30
- The Remarkable Frank Sykora 35
- Sellers Returns 39
- 3 Becoming the Chiefs (1947-1953) 42
- A Coed University ... Again 42
- Halftime Hijinks 48
- Robert Braunagel (1949-1953) 52
- October 1950 55
- Football Gets Serious 59
- Part II Marching Chiefs Two Times!
- 4 Whit (1953-1962) 65
- Manley R. Whitcomb 65
- "Music, Music, Music" 69
- "Hell-Raisers" 74
- Small Scandals 84
- Damned Gators 85
- Whit Retires 89
- 5 The Art of the Marching Band (1963-1970) 91
- Charlie Carter 91
- "Brownie" 97
- "Never lost a halftime show" 101
- Forging an Art Form 109
- "Ghosts of FSCW" 113
- The Chiefs Go Bowling 116
- 6 World Renowned (1971-1976) 121
- "With an ever present flair" 121
- "Anti-Football Views" 130
- Syria and Jordan (1974) 135
- Dis-Spirited '76 138
- Part III Marching Chiefs Three Times!
- 7 Football Rising: Bowden, Bernie and Bentley (1976-1990) 146
- Tradition Returns 146
- "Where our traditions come from": FSU at Ohio State, October 3, 1981 152
- The Voice 159
- Shellahamer Returns 161
- "We played the 'War Chant' non-stop" 164
- 8 A Marching Band for a New Era (1991 to Today) 168
- Dunnagin and Plack 168
- "Zero tolerance" 172
- Exit Charlie 177
- World Renowned ... Still 182.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781476668321
- 1476668329
- OCLC:
- 989968454
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