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Satchmo blows up the world : jazz ambassadors play the Cold War
by Von Eschen, Penny M. (Penny Marie)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine, in fine jacket, with faintest of rubbing to bottom of back jacket/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0674015010
- ISBN 13
- 9780674015012
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About This Item
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2004. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine, in fine jacket, with faintest of rubbing to bottom of back jacket/fine. Large octavo purple cloth spine, purple d.j.; x, 329 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Contents: Ike gets dizzy -- Swinging into action: jazz to the rescue -- The real ambassador -- Getting the Soviets to swing -- Duke's diplomacy -- Jazz, gospel, and R & B: black power abroad -- Improvising détente -- Playing the international changes. || "Stung by reports that people around the world thought the US was a racist society that oppressed the African American, from 1956 the State Dept. dispatched jazz luminaries such as Louis Armstrong to distant corners where they blew the trumpet of freedom in the war against communism."
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- Bibliope by Calvello Books (US)
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- 87748
- Title
- Satchmo blows up the world : jazz ambassadors play the Cold War
- Author
- Von Eschen, Penny M. (Penny Marie)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine, in fine jacket, with faintest of rubbing to bottom of back jacket
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st ed
- ISBN 10
- 0674015010
- ISBN 13
- 9780674015012
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Mass
- Date Published
- 2004
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
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About Bibliope by Calvello Books
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