Satchmo Blows Up the World : : Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War / / Penny M. Von Eschen.
At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth, from Iraq to India, from the Cong...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- CHAPTER 1 Ike Gets Dizzy
- CHAPTER 2 Swinging into Action: Jazz to the Rescue
- CHAPTER 3 The Real Ambassador
- CHAPTER 4 Getting the Soviets to Swing
- CHAPTER 5 Duke's Diplomacy
- CHAPTER 6 Jazz, Gospel, and R&B Black Power Abroad
- CHAPTER 7 Improvising Détente
- CHAPTER 8 Playing the International Changes
- CHAPTER 9 Epilogue
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index