"A Girl Among Trombonists" by Cris Mazza

     This essay started out very slowly. I found the extremely detailed description being in the band, and the trombonist etiquette very monotonous and boring. Mazza could have skimmed over the majority of what she was describing during the beginning of the piece. But besides that, I found the overall topic pretty interesting. Being the only girl in an otherwise all boys section of the band is a very peculiar situation, and they way the boys treated her, feeling comfortable touching her in ways the didn't with their girlfriends, was very odd. The time period though, of the seventies, was a period of women's liberation, though as Mazza pointed out, this sometimes only relayed to sexual liberty.