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050 00 $aML3918.J39$bD38 2009
082 00 $a781.650973/0947$222
100 1 $aDavenport, Lisa E.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009007554
245 10 $aJazz diplomacy :$bpromoting America in the Cold War era /$cLisa E. Davenport.
260 $aJackson :$bUniversity Press of Mississippi,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $a219 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aAmerican made music series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"As an instrument of global diplomacy, jazz transformed superpower relations in the Cold War era and reshaped democracy's image worldwide. Lisa E. Davenport tells the story of America's program of jazz diplomacy practiced in the Soviet Union and other regions of the world from 1954 to 1968. Jazz music and jazz musicians seemed ideal cards to play in diminishing the credibility and appeal of Soviet communism in the Eastern bloc and beyond. Government-funded musical junkets by such jazz masters as Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and Benny Goodman dramatically influenced perceptions of the U.S. and its capitalist brand of democracy while easing political tensions in the midst of critical Cold War crises. This book shows how, when coping with foreign questions about desegregation, the dispute over the Berlin Wall, the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam, and the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, jazz players and their handlers wrestled with the inequalities of race and the emergence of class conflict while promoting America in a global context. And, as jazz musicians are wont to do, many of these ambassadors riffed off script when the opportunity arose." "Jazz Diplomacy argues that this musical method of winning hearts and minds often transcended economic and strategic priorities. Even so,the goal of containing communism remained paramount, and it prevailed over America's policy of redefining relations with emerging new nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aJazz$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aCold War$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009120578
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140089
830 0 $aAmerican made music series.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95122815
852 00 $bmus$hML3918.J39$iD38 2009