I'm Talking about Shaft.

The article focuses on the experiences of the lone white American member of a high school marching band in Clinton, North Carolina and how the squad once attempted to play the theme form the motion picture "Shaft." He described the rehearsals and execution of the performance at a football game. The author related how the squad, although the worst in the state, helped to immerse him in African-American culture and to understand the migration of rural southern African Americans to the urban north.