You are listening to the most famous, and perhaps most frequently played piece of American music ever written, John Phillip Sousa’s The ... the Spanish-American War. Patriotic fever was soaring.

It was "The Washington Post March," composed by Marine Band director John Philip Sousa at the behest of the newspaper you are holding (or the Web site or mobile application you are viewing).

hear John Philip Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever.” The march — premiered in 1897, made famous in 1898 (aided by pro-Spanish-American War enthusiasm), subsequently conducted by Sousa ...

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., for the John Philip Sousa Festival, held Thursday through Sunday. “Being selected to perform at the Kennedy Center is an incredible ...

Today, in 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, a contraption that John Philip Sousa didn't much like. But look at how prescient he was: "The time is coming when no one will be ready to ...