Last fall, when the photographer Alice Mann visited primary schools in Cape Town, South Africa, to photograph teams of drum majorettes, she was often met with astonishment. The “Drummies,” as they’re ...

Drum majorettes came to South Africa in the 1970s, and by the early Eighties the synchronised, baton-twirling gymnastic display had taken the country by storm. But the sport’s popularity has waned ...

MARCH ON: The Hillcrest High Steppin' Majorettes and Drum Corps were a crowd favorite in Asheville parades for decades. Photos courtesy of Buncombe County Special Collections If you live in Asheville, ...

In 2018, the South African director Jessie Zinn saw something she knew to tuck away in her mental archive, for later. It was a Photo Booth, on newyorker.com, featuring images by the photographer Alice ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Miss Leesburg Meagann Goodridge was crowned American’s Most Beautiful Majorette, Senior High School Majorette and Miss Majorette ...

A VAST leveling-off movement seems to have overtaken the drum majorettes. Formerly unique, like a queen bee, the drum majorette was usually the only one of her sex on parade, sometimes with a ...

Ackermann will lead the school’s high school drummies team, the Saints, onto the field at the upcoming Knight of Champions, one of Gauteng’s premier drum majo ...

Following a growing cry for "sex in the band," the CRIMSON this morning announces a competition for aspiring Drum Majorettes to come from near and far. Entrants to the "Gateway to Harvard" contest ...

THE back-to-school days are here again, and educators throughout the land are pondering many grave new questions. Notable among the summer’s developments was the striking expansion of opportunities ...