The global politics of jazz in the twentieth century : : cultural diplomacy and "American music" / / Yoshiomi Saito.

From the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, jazz was harnessed as America's "sonic weapon" to promote an image to the world of a free and democratic America. Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington and other well-known jazz musicians were sentaround the world-including to an array of...

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Place / Publishing House:Abingdon, Oxon ;, New York, NY : : Routledge,, 2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 144
Physical Description:1 online resource (10)
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