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Satchmo Blows Up the World : Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War,
Satchmo Blows Up the World Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
Author: Penny M. Von Eschen
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 hear...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674015012
ISBN-10: 0674015010
Publication Date: 12/17/2004
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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