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The Global Politics of Jazz in the Twentieth Century: Cultural Diplomacy and …
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SAITO, Yoshiomi

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 sent around the world – including to an array of Communist countries – as "jazz ambassadors" in order to mitigate the negative image associated with dom…

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9780429595363
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780