Author of The Line, A Fine Line, and Keeping in Line As summer nears, the temperature heats up, and the WGI season winds down, I find myself inevitably thinking ahead to DCI. For the uninitiated and uninformed, DCI is Drum Corps International, which correctly brands itself as Marching Music’s Major League. It is a collection [...]
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This article by Dave Wilson was posted on the DCI site in March 2004. A handful of female snare drummers in DCI corps discuss their experiences encountering gender stereotypes. Only two of the drummers felt that they were treated any differently than male drummers. The majority felt that their gender didn’t affect how they were [...]