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Curtis Lundy Quartet at Cooper House

Courtesy of Howard Bankhead | Posted on November 3, 2019

Where

Cooper House
405 Randolph Avenue
Huntsville, AL
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When

Fri, November 8, 2019
6:00 pm

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Musicians

JD Allen
saxophone, tenor

About

Jazz has been symbolically linked to the civil rights movement. The music, which appealed to whites and blacks alike, provided a culture in which the collective and the individual were inextricable. It was a space where a person was judged by their ability alone, and not by race or any other irrelevant factors. Not only was jazz music itself an analogy to the ideals of the civil rights movement, but jazz musicians took up the cause themselves. Using their celebrity and their music, musicians promoted racial equality and social justice. Ideology, America, especially the State of Alabama is just as divided today in 2019, as it was in 1959...

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