What Scott Joplin did for ragtime and Jelly Roll Morton for jazz, John Philip Sousa achieved for another ... concert pieces and songs, it’s the marches – 136 of them – that distinguish ...

Sousa around 1915, about a decade after he first decried "mechanical music." Library of Congress John “The March King” Philip Sousa knew ... were told and the songs were sung with a charm ...

Who was this man who became a musical legend during his own lifetime with such hits as “The Stars and Stripes Forever”, “The Liberty Bell” (best known as the theme song for Monty Python’ ...

Today being July 4th and all, what better way to celebrate America's birthday than to look at the life and music of John Philip Sousa (1854-1932). Known as the “March King," the composer and conductor ...