In the spirit of Friday Night Lights comes the stirring story of a marching band from small-town middle America.Every fall, marching bands take to the field in a uniquely American ritual. For millions of kids, band is a rite of passage—a first foray into leadership and adult responsibility, and a chance to learn what it means to be a part of a community. Nowhere is band more serious than at Concord High School in Elkhart, Indiana, where the entire town is involved with the success of its defending state champion band, the Marching Minutemen.In the place where this tradition may have originated, in the city that became the band instrument capital of the world, band is a religion. But it's not the only religion—as legendary director Max Jones discovers when conflicting notions of faith and purpose collide during his final year as director. In this intimate chronicle, the band marches through a season that starts in hope and promise, progresses through uncertainty and disappointment, and ends, ultimately, in redemption.

by Kristen Laine

Avery

1st ed., New York, New York State, 2007

United States, United States of America

1st ed, New York, c2007

First Edition, PS, 2007

1St Edition, 2007

August 2, 2007

Concord Marching Minutemen of Concord Community High School, Elkhart, IN.

subject: Concord Marching Minutemen

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topic: Concord Marching Minutemen

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Bookmarks:
1. (p1) Prelude
2. (p2) 1. The Voice of God
3. (p3) 2. Roots
4. (p4) 3. Middletown
5. (p5) 4. Perfect
6. (p6) 5. State Fair
7. (p7) 6. Learning the Drill
8. (p8) 7. Downbeat
9. (p9) 8. "We the People"
10. (p10) 9. On Earth As It Is in Heaven
11. (p11) 10. Bonfire
12. (p12) 11. Closer Walk with Thee
13. (p13) 12. A Beat Too Late?
14. (p14) 13. Swing, Swing, Swing
15. (p15) 14. Where Is Your God?
16. (p16) Postlude
17. (p17) Author's Note
18. (p18) Acknowledgments

theme: Concord Marching Minutemen

"Kristen Laine went back to the heartland-- to the America so many of us fly over without blinking an eye-- and uncovered ... a world where salvation and ambition and teenage angst collide in strange ways no outsider could ever understand, unless you read American Band ."
--Michael Bamberger, author of Wonderland: A Year in the Life of an American High School
Every fall, marching bands take to the field in a uniquely American ritual. From the stands, it looks easy. You dont see them sweat. For millions of kids, band is more than a show. Its a rite of passagea first foray into leadership and adult responsibility, and a chance to learn what it means to be part of a community. Nowhere is band more serious than at Concord High School in Elkhart, Indiana, where the entire town is involved with the success of its defending state champion band, the Marching Minutemen.
In the place where this tradition may have originated, in the city that became the band instrument capital of the world, band is a religion. But its not the only religion, as director Max Jones discovers. After four decades, Joness single-minded devotion to musical excellence has fallen out of step with a younger generation increasingly focused on personal salvation. In what his students do not know is his final season of directing, he has assembled his most ambitious show ever, for the strongest senior class he has ever directed. Amid conflicting notions of greatness, the band marches through a season that starts in hope and promise, progresses through uncertainty and disappointment, and ends, ultimately, in redemption.
AMERICAN BAND is an unusually intimate chronicle of life, in all its triumph, disappointment, and drama, in the kind of community in which most of America lives. It is an especially timely portrait, capturing as it does the spirit of the heartland at a time of profound change. If you have ever beenor yearned to bepart of something bigger than yourself, you will be rooting for the kids whose voices fill this book.

Traces the story of the Marching Minutemen marching band state champions from Concord Community High School in Indiana, describing the conflicts between faith and purpose faced by its legendary director and the band's perfectionist-level pursuits.

The story of Concord High School's marching band, the Concord Marching Minuteman, in Elkhart, Indiana, in their last season under legendary director Max Jones

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