{"id":390,"date":"2011-04-08T10:49:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T14:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2011\/04\/central_brooklyn_jazz_fest_rei\/"},"modified":"2019-09-13T12:02:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T16:02:40","slug":"central_brooklyn_jazz_fest_rei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2011\/04\/central_brooklyn_jazz_fest_rei.html","title":{"rendered":"Central Brooklyn Jazz Fest reiterates jazz\/race divide"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival<\/a>, during what the Smithsonian Institution promotes as\u00c2\u00a0Jazz Appreciation Month<\/a>, is a powerful statement of hard core, grass-roots support for the music Congress has ratified<\/a> as “a rare and valuable American national treasure.”\u00c2\u00a0My City Arts column<\/a> reports on how the fest and other Brooklyn jazz activities, despite best intentions, reprise the distances and suspicions people of diverse backgrounds hold about each other.<\/p>\n

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\nThere’s probably no way out of the ethnic\/racial conflicts that so hamper the United States, except for us to suffer through them. But maybe Jazz Appreciation Month should have a component of celebration of how citizens and residents of all<\/i> backgrounds contribute to our culture, rich yet complicated and conflicted as it certainly is.<\/p>\n

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