Satchmo Blows Up the World

副标题: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War

ISBN: 9780674022607

出版社: Harvard University Press

出版年: 2006-9-30

页数: 352

定价: USD 22.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.