Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War by Penny M. Von Eschen

Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War

Penny M. Von Eschen

342 pages paperback 2004

2 editions

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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 co...

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