Satchmo blows up the world : jazz ambassadors play the Cold War /

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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Main Author: Von Eschen, Penny M. (Penny Marie) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006
Edition:1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central