1st Edition
The Global Politics of Jazz in the Twentieth Century Cultural Diplomacy and "American Music"
By Yoshiomi Saito
Copyright 2020
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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From the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, jazz was harnessed as America’s "sonic weapon" to promote an image to the world of a free and democratic America. Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington and other well-known jazz musicians were sent around the world – including to an array of Communist countries – as "jazz ambassadors" in order to mitigate the negative image associated... Read more
1.The Genealogy of ‘American Music’
2. The Scene Changes in Postwar Jazz Politics
3. Jazz Ambassadors Revisited
4. The Politics behind the Selection Process
5.Anti-Americanism in the Western Jazz Discourse
6.Containing the Soviet Jazz Scene
7. Contesting Discourses in East European Jazz Scenes
8.Making Jazz Great Again
Biography
Yoshiomi Saito is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyoto University, Japan.
