Satchmo Blows up the World Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War

Name: Satchmo Blows up the World Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
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ISBN: 9780674022607

ISBN-10: 0674022602

ISBN-13: 9780674022607

Edition: 2004

Authors: Penny M. Von Eschen

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Stung by reports that people around the world thought the US was a racist society that oppressed the African American, from 1956 the State Dept. dispatched jazz luminaries such as Louis Armstrong to distant corners where they blew the trumpet of freedom in the war against communism.

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Penny M. Von Eschen is Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan.




Ike Gets Dizzy



Swinging into Action: Jazz to the Rescue



The Real Ambassador



Getting the Soviets to Swing



Duke's Diplomacy



Jazz, Gospel, and R&B: Black Power Abroad



Improvising Deacute;tente



Playing the International Changes



Epilogue


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index