Bass Drum History

Felt, Not Heard In a concert band, the bass drum plays a very important role, but while sitting in the audience, it is almost impossible to hear. It is said that the bass drum is felt, but not heard. This is how the fringe groups have effected America throughout history. The lower classes of America have made their presence felt even when the upper classes turn a blind eye. It is clear that marginalized groups have made a large impact on this country while being ignored by the elites of society. Throughout history, fringe groups, such as Native Americans and the poor farmers that joined in Shays’s Rebellion, were looked down on and how they have impacted history.
Throughout history, Americans have had a tendency to look down their noses in …show more content…
There are tails of the fear felt by settlers throughout Michael L. Tate’s book, Indians and Emigrants. They were seen as murders and thieves. One of the reasons that people were so afraid of Native Americans and their actions were because of the trail guidebooks that were printed. Nearly every wagon contained one of these publications (Tate, 10), but the information printed in them was not always first hand or even factual. The most common trail guide books were not written by people that had traveled the trail, but by commercial companies (Tate, 9). Fear sells, which is something that still holds true today, so it is not surprising that people cleared the shelves of material that told the horror stories about the Indians. In The Emigrants’ Guide to California that is within Indians and Emigrants, Joseph Ware wrote, “Never allow an Indian to come within your lines under any pretext – they seldom have a good object in view” (Tate, 9). In an earlier guide book, Lansford Hastings wrote, “A more villainous and treacherous race of thieves, can scarcely be found” (Tate, 10). …show more content…
With this being said, it was not easy for them to make these things happen. The people that rebelled against the government of Massachusetts had to take drastic actions in order to make their presence felt. These people had to make a show of force to get recognition. Many of the rebels took action against the government by closing courts. In Springfield, Massachusetts, three hundred rebels marched on a court and forced it to close. This was an interesting incident because where the people were from; they were not all form the same town or area. They all banded together from different small towns to defy the oppressive government (Richards, 21-22). Throughout the rebellion courts, a total of five counties were shut down. Some of the groups were as big as one thousand men (Richards, 1). Another action that rebels took was to attempt the takeover of the federal arsenal in Springfield. This move was quite bold, if it had succeeded, the rebels would have had control over all of New England’s armaments (Richards, 1, 27 -30). While the seizure of the arsenal was a failure and the courts that were closed all reopened, the rebellion was not a complete failure. Shays’s Rebellion set the ground work for the disposal of the Articles of Confederation and the writing of the Constitution of the United

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