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Booker T. Washington High School Band, Tulsa
Oklahoma Eagle notices document 1974 benefit concerts for band uniforms and equipment, a 1978 band-boosters appeal, and a 1979 final uniform-payment presentation.
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Schools, teachers, band directors, and the people who pass music on.
School and university ensemble records sit alongside Oklahoma Bandmasters Association histories, leadership lists, and recognition records. Together they provide names, institutional connections, and dated contexts for the study of music education.
An award list establishes a source mention in that award context. A school name on a contest schedule establishes a scheduled appearance. Neither alone supplies a complete biography or proves an ensemble’s continuous history.
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Cameron University Bands
Cameron officially documents concert-band activity, a long-running jazz festival, and collaborations with Lawton community and Fort Sill military musicians.
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Drumright High School Band
Local museum research documents a female drum major, 1937 state victory and Chicago trip, a 30-city tour, and a 1946 Mexico tour.
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East Central University Bands
ECU documents marching, wind, concert, campus, pep, chamber, percussion, and jazz ensembles.
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Lawton High School Band Program
The 1940 yearbook documents band activity, girls’ participation, and a drum-majorette boys-band presentation beyond the separate 1939 all-girls photograph.
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Midwest City High School Band
An archival record preserves a 1976 Midwest City High School concert-band performance or recording.
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Muskogee High School Bands
Muskogee's high-school jazz combo won the 2026 6A State Jazz Combo Championship and its jazz band received a third consecutive Superior state rating.
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Nopper's Juvenile Band
Contemporary citations document Walter J. Nopper’s juvenile and 58-piece boy-and-girl Scout band.
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Northern Oklahoma College Bands
NOC officially lists concert and jazz bands; its preparatory-school lineage reaches 1901.
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Future interviews will connect these sources with the recollections of people who made music.
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