ROANOKE TIMES 

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DATE: MONDAY, July 5, 1993                   TAG: 9307070423
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF JAZZ

ON A RECENT day at Elizabeth Park, the Cave Spring High School stage band played "Harlem Nocturne" and "Birdland." The demographics of the school's neighborhood probably accounted for the band's apparently all-white composition, as it were. One noticed more ominously, perhaps, that the crowd was also all white. Are many blacks - local, area and countrywide - becoming turned off to the very culture they have contributed so vitally to? BOB SHIELDS ROANOKE 


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