And they did, inviting a Watts high school marching band, the Mudtown King and
Queen Drill Team and Drum Squad, to perform.
Rosalyn Gold - Onwude went on to detail the hardship, inconvenience and general second - class citizenship suffered by Stanford's Littles (backcourt players, or «peasants,» as she also calls them) on a
team built around Bigs (frontcourt players, a.k.a. «the czars, the emperors, the
queens»): «The Littles endure harder
drills and slow delivery of new gear only to tolerate yet another injustice: the plays aren't for us.»
Exploring topics as disparate as Roman art, Rose
queens, and Texas
drill teams, Bodycast mines specific details of Bocanegra's life to create a more general meditation on art - making and shifting ideals of feminine beauty.