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Satchmo blows up the world : jazz ambassadors play the cold war

Von eschen. p.m.

9780674022607 - Satchmo blows up the world : jazz ambassadors play the cold war
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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 Congo to the Soviet Union, in order to win the hearts and minds of the Third World and to counter perceptions of American racism.

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Author Von eschen. p.m.
ISBN/EAN 9780674022607
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Article description

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 Congo to the Soviet Union, in order to win the hearts and minds of the Third World and to counter perceptions of American racism.

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Author Von eschen. p.m.
ISBN/EAN 9780674022607