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On a corduroy couch in her parents’ Roxbury home, a toddler in headphones would listen to funk curated by her mother.

George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, Sly Stone, the everyday people, one nation under a groove era.

“That was my first introduction to music,” Catherine T. Morris says. “You gotta get funky with it. I resonate with that.”

The beat of her own P-Funk song is one of resistance, of joy, of love, and faith. In so many ways, as evidenced by Questlove’s new film “Summer of Soul,” music — for so many of us — can be church. And a concert is a community of freedom.

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