TY  - BOOK
TI  - The Global Politics of Jazz in the Twentieth Century: Cultural Diplomacy and "American Music"
SN  - 9780429060595
PY  - 2020///
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - History
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - The Arts
KW  - Arts
KW  - humanities
KW  - international relations
KW  - politics
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - 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 domestic racial problems. While many non-Americans embraced the Americanism behind this jazz diplomacy without question, others criticized American domestic and foreign policies while still appreciating jazz - thus jazz, despite its popularity, also became a medium for expressing anti-Americanism. This book examines the development of jazz outside America, including across diverse historical periods and geographies - shedding light on the effectiveness of jazz as an instrument of state power within a global political context
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37435
ER  -