Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War [Audiobook] by Penny M. Von Eschen
English | July 10th, 2018 | ASIN: B07F1ZGSBJ | MP3@64 kbps | 10 hrs 6 mins | 278.02 MB
Narrator: Christina Delaine
At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the US 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.