Triptych: Prayer / Protest / Peace

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"Triptych: Prayer / Protest / Peace" is an avant-garde jazz composition by Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln that powerfully dramatizes the emotional arc from spiritual supplication through civil rights struggle to a vision of reconciliation.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf avant-garde jazz work
jazz composition
musical composition
artisticApproach experimental vocal improvisation
percussion-driven composition
politically engaged jazz
associatedWith Abbey Lincoln’s civil rights activism
Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite
composer Max Roach
countryOfOrigin United States
genre avant-garde jazz
jazz
hasPart Peace
Prayer
Protest
historicalContext American civil rights movement
instrumentation drums
voice
intendedMessage call for freedom and justice
hope for peace after struggle
language wordless
lyricist Abbey Lincoln
movement civil rights era jazz
narrativeArc from prayer to protest to peace
notableFor dramatic vocal performance by Abbey Lincoln
integration of music and civil rights themes
use of nonverbal vocal expression to depict struggle
numberOfMovements 3
partOf We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite
performer Abbey Lincoln
Max Roach
primaryComposerInstrument drums
theme African-American freedom struggle
civil rights struggle
nonviolent resistance
reconciliation
spiritual supplication
vocalist Abbey Lincoln
vocalStyle moans and chants
screams and cries
wordless vocals

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We Insist! Freedom Now Suite notableTrack Triptych: Prayer / Protest / Peace
All Africa relatedWork Triptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace
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