Research expansion · September 15, 2026
Using the expanded community-band research collection.
The research is incorporated into the website instead of remaining a separate unused corpus.
What was integrated
The latest main the research archive database contains 111 rows, and the remaining-areas sweep contains 7 more. After internal duplicate normalization and comparison with the existing 116 public source records, 103 new source notes were added. The source library now contains 219 records.
Nine research titles already matched established site records closely enough to retain the existing page instead of creating a duplicate.
Source tiers in the 111-row main database
| Source tier | Records |
|---|---|
| Thesis / dissertation | 63 |
| Peer-reviewed or scholarly article | 31 |
| Scholarly book / chapter | 5 |
| Public-history lead | 5 |
| Conference paper / proceedings | 3 |
| Archival / primary-source lead | 3 |
| Bibliography / research tool | 1 |
58 of the 111 rows are marked PDF verified. That indicates a PDF or PDF endpoint was verified in the research pass; it does not automatically mean open access.
Geographic breadth
| Country/region | Records |
|---|---|
| United States | 60 |
| Portugal | 8 |
| United Kingdom | 6 |
| Brazil | 6 |
| Canada | 4 |
| Global | 3 |
| Spain | 3 |
| North America | 3 |
| France | 2 |
| South Africa | 2 |
| Netherlands | 2 |
| New Zealand | 1 |
| Chile | 1 |
| Hungary | 1 |
| Japan | 1 |
The remaining-areas sweep adds or strengthens Japan, Ghana, Benin and South Korea. Additional international candidates stay in the research pipeline until they meet the source-note threshold.
Areas materially strengthened
- African American civic, fraternal, school/community and brass-band traditions.
- Industrial and company bands.
- New Horizons and older-adult participation.
- American town, civic, fraternal and community-band history.
- International civil, philharmonic, fanfare, brass-band and wind-band traditions.
- Participation, identity, pedagogy, leadership, repertoire and organizational sustainability.
Evidence controls retained
Metadata-only leads remain identified as such. Publisher PDF endpoints are not treated as proof of open access. Public-history and archival leads are not presented as peer-reviewed scholarship. Source tiers and access notes from the research archive are preserved on the new source pages.