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With very little research on the drum corps community, there is a lack of true understanding of how lives after drum corps may be affected. However, we might expect that the dedication increases the quality of life due to the education focusing on individual success as opposed to competitive success (Chavez, 2016). Similarly, we might expect that personal and professional life will improve through the discipline and process that happens in choral groups, high school band, and orchestra settings (Vance, 2014).
Through an interview format, I will analyze the effect of drum corps on the member’s lives outside of the sport, asking questions that reflect on the effects of drum corps that reflect personal and professional growth. The questions will serve as guides in the interview process to allow participants to freely share experiences without constraint.
We see that the drum corps community carries subcultural significance with unique personal language, logistical understandings, and care for the activity. We also see that participation in any singular season with a drum corps has lasting effects on personal and professional growth. We are left with an understanding of a forgotten community and the lasting effect the subculture has on a wide variety of lives. With deep understandings in commitment, community, and cultural significance, drum corps provides an experience to young adults that will have lasting affects not only within music and performance education, but with the longer experience of life.
This thesis discusses the circumstances surrounding the movement to defund and eventually abolish the police. It introduces abolitionist theory and analyzes the economic and social factors contributing to the ideology's increasing popularity. Further, this paper examines the expenditures of several police departments in Arizona and how increases in spending affect their respective cities' crime rates. According to the regression analyses conducted for this thesis, the results indicate that there is little to no correlation between law enforcement expenditures and community safety. Upon completion of that analysis, this paper discusses recommendations to redistribute public monetary resources as a means to promote economic and social justice.
Passed in April of 2010, Arizona Senate Bill 1070 is nationally recognized as the first state-level anti-immigration legislation of its kind that deputized local police officers to enforce immigration laws. Though response strategies varied widely across activists and organizations, many community organizations devised strategies specifically aimed to protect and assist the undocumented community during the reign of terror that accompanied SB 1070. In looking at the reflections of activists and organization leaders on their own actions and decision-making rationale, I analyze how their strategies and tactics worked to both counter and reconceptualize hegemonic notions of citizenship, belonging, and community through the creation of networks and knowledge funds. By specifically examining the efforts made by No Mas Muerte, Puente Human Rights Movement, and the Calle Dieciseis Mural Project, I show that efforts that go beyond voter mobilization and legal action, which not only work to combat dominant rhetoric but also center the voices of the targeted population through disrupting public space, are essential to responding to political efforts designed to target vulnerable communities. Given their necessity, academics and institutional actors must acknowledge the importance of grassroots efforts in contributing to inter-institutional strategies and ensure that a ground-up analysis of community-based organizations informs their actions taken against state-level anti-immigration laws.