page_title: HBCU band
section_title: Drum majors
hierarchical_section_title: HBCU band / Characteristics / Drum majors
caption_attribution_description: State Fair Showdown 2019 Southern University (SU) Human Jukebox feat. Fabulous Dancing Dolls vs. Texas Southern University (TXSU) Cotton Bowl Stadium Dallas, TX 10/19/19 HBCU Band Warning: Harsh Lighting**
context_page_description: A Historically Black College and University marching band is the marching band sponsored by a historically black college or university. A distinctive "HBCU-style" of marching band originated in the American South in the 1940s through the blending of earlier traditions of military music and minstrel shows with a performance repertoire based on popular song.
  The spectator popularity of HBCU bands within the campus communities of their institutions has historically eclipsed that of traditional athletics. One 2009 survey of students and alumni of HBCUs found that more than 83-percent felt that most people attended HBCU football games only to see the marching band perform.
  Different studies have linked HBCU membership with both higher and lower rates of academic achievement versus the at-large student population. Among the predominantly male, African-American membership of the ensembles, they have been theorized to support positive identity formation. Instances of death and serious injury have occurred among HBCU band members due to patterns of endemic and often violent hazing.
context_section_description: Drum majors in HBCU bands fill a different role than those of other marching bands which use the position to control tempo and impart field direction. The role of HBCU drum majors evolved from that of leaders of bands in black minstrel parades who were performers themselves. In the black minstrel theatrics of the 19th century, according to Lee Evans citing DeVeaux and Giddins, "'black people realized that they could perform their ‘blackness’ for money,' so they began dancing and singing and doing comedy skits in the streets'.
caption: The drum major of Southern University pictured in 2019.
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