John Philip Sousa Band

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Prompt: What made John Philip Sousa’s Music career a Success to Me?

John Philip Sousa was a great man! He made a new kind of band that was popular for all of 40 years. Of which he named the Sousa Band! (Very creative! NOT!) It twas a fusion of the brass, orchestra, and military bands. But why did this give him such success? One reason he could have gotten such success was, the pure creativity of the idea! One supporting reason for this is, this happened in 1892, the TV and radio didn’t exist yet, so, a new type of band would be quite the entertainment. Another supporting detail would be, since this type of band was a fusion of 3 different kinds of band, Sousa (that’s what my resources call him) had to do songs that covered all instrument

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