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The Global Politics of Jazz in the Twentieth Century - Cultural Diplomacy and "American Music" (Paperback)
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The Global Politics of Jazz in the Twentieth Century - Cultural Diplomacy and "American Music" (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
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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
with domestic racial problems. While many non-Americans embraced
the Americanism behind this jazz diplomacy without question, others
criticized American domestic and foreign policies while still
appreciating jazz - thus jazz, despite its popularity, also became
a medium for expressing anti-Americanism. This book examines the
development of jazz outside America, including across diverse
historical periods and geographies - shedding light on the
effectiveness of jazz as an instrument of state power within a
global political context. Saito examines jazz across a wide range
of regions, including America, Europe, Japan and Communist
countries. His research also draws heavily upon a variety of
sources, primary as well as secondary, which are accessible in
these diverse countries: all had their unique and culturally
specific domestic jazz scenes, but also interacted with each other
in an interesting dimension of early globalization. This
comparative analysis on the range of unique jazz scenes and
cultures offers a detailed understanding as to how jazz has been
interpreted in various ways, according to the changing contexts of
politics and society around it, often providing a basis for
criticizing America itself. Furthering our appreciation of the
organic relationship between jazz and global politics, Saito
reconsiders the uniqueness of jazz as an exclusively "American
music." This book will be of interest to students and scholars of
international relations, the history of popular music, and global
politics.
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