{"id":481,"date":"2014-05-01T22:45:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T22:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=481"},"modified":"2024-05-22T20:17:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T20:17:34","slug":"world-war-americas-march-king-new-exhibit-sousa-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2014\/05\/01\/world-war-americas-march-king-new-exhibit-sousa-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"World War I with America\u2019s March King — New Exhibit at the Sousa Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, October 12, 1917<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With the outbreak of World War I on July 28, 1914 President Woodrow Wilson and most of the country embraced a national policy of neutrality to avoid becoming involved in Europe\u2019s military conflict.\u00a0 After completing his 1914 tour Sousa and his band joined Charles Dillingham\u2019s extravagant Broadway-style revue, Hip! Hip! Hooray!<\/i>, for its opening in New York\u2019s Hippodrome on September 30, 1915 and performed two concerts daily until June 3, 1916.\u00a0\u00a0 Dillingham\u2019s spectacular included an elephant show, high wire acts, theatrical ice skating, flower ladders and vaudeville routines, and Sousa\u2019s band provided the music for these different acts.\u00a0As Sousa\u2019s band was concluding its Hip! Hip! Hooray! tour during the spring of 1917 the country learned of Germany\u2019s failed diplomatic effort to incite Mexico to declare war on America.\u00a0 As a result the country\u2019s neutral sentiment abruptly changed and on April 6, 1917 the United States declared war on Germany.\u00a0 Two weeks later twenty-seven members of the Sousa Band joined the Armed Forces and Sousa temporarily disbanded his civilian ensemble.\u00a0 The March King, at the age of sixty-two, offered his services first to the U.S. Marines and then the U.S. Army, but his offer to each military branch was turned down because of his age.\u00a0 However, Captain William A. Moffett, commandant of the Great Lakes Naval Training Center outside of Chicago, heard of the Marine\u2019s and Army\u2019s rejection of John Philip Sousa\u2019s offer and immediately commissioned him as a lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve to organize and train naval bands.\u00a0 This new exhibition explores Sousa\u2019s musical contributions to America\u2019s war effort and how this music reflected his acknowledgment of the sacrifices that were made by all Americans who fought in this military conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the outbreak of World War I on July 28, 1914 President Woodrow Wilson and most of the country embraced a national policy of neutrality to avoid becoming involved in Europe\u2019s military conflict.\u00a0 After completing his 1914 tour Sousa and his band joined Charles Dillingham\u2019s extravagant Broadway-style revue, Hip! Hip! Hooray!, for its opening in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4729,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/4729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}