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International Jazz Festival Promotes Peace
an article by Joe

I have always been a big fan of jazz music and its related art forms. So I was very pleased the other day when I came across a picture of American music legends Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Carlos Santana at an exhibition promoting the United Nations’ International Decade for a Culture of Peace for the Children of the World.

Jazz is usually acknowledged as the only uniquely "American" art form, and its roots run deep in decades of civil rights struggles in this country. It is perhaps not so surprising, then, to see these famous American jazz musicians at the forefront of the international movement for a culture of peace and non-violence.

The Culture of Peace exhibition, which brings together "the ideas of hundreds of people and organizations dedicated to finding a path to lasting peace," was featured this July at the 38th annual Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.

The jazz festival itself is a peace-promoting event, according to its founder, Claude Nobs. Hancock, Shorter, and Santana presented Nobs with the "Humanity in the Arts Peace Award" on behalf of the International Committee of Artists for Peace (ICAP). At the ceremony, which took place in front of the Culture of Peace exhibit, Nobs observed that the jazz festival, its performers, and the exhibit all shared "an appeal for heightening public awareness and participation in peace efforts."

For a longer report on the Jazz festival, click here.

For more information on the Culture of Peace exhibition, click here.

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As of now, there are 33 CPNN articles on this theme, which shows the great extent to which music is the universal language of peace!


This report was posted on September 2, 2004.