Title The Global Politics of Jazz in the Twentieth Century : Cultural Diplomacy and American Music

Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (209 pages) Series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics Ser Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics Ser Contents Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Jazz and Americanism; Functions of jazz; Global political dynamism and jazz; Notes; 1. The genealogy of "American music"; The emergence of "swing ideology"; Jazz à la mode; Jazz as a form of resistance in Germany and Japan; Propagating swing during the Second World War; Notes; 2. The scene changes in postwar jazz politics; Racial integration and bebop's resistance; Swings in Soviet jazz policy; De-Americanizing jazz discourse in Eastern Europe; Notes 3. Jazz ambassadors revisitedIronies in the discovery of jazz; Gillespie and competing jazz discourses; Goodman at the front line in the cultural Cold War; Brubeck, Teagarden and the universality of jazz; Notes; 4. The politics behind the selection process; Satchmo, Duke and the external value of jazz; Coleman and the problem of selecting musicians; Herman, Weston and the problem of the gap in interpretation; Notes; 5. Anti-Americanism in the Western jazz discourse; "America" in the postwar jazz discourse in Western Europe; Imperial nostalgia; Overcoming the past In search of alternative jazz ambassadors programsNotes; 6. Containing the Soviet jazz scene; Goodman and the Soviet jazz scene; Hines and US-Soviet relations of the mid-1960s; Mulligan, America's informal jazz ambassador; Ellington, jazz and America; Notes; 7. Contesting discourses in East European jazz scenes; Brubeck and Conover in a changing jazz scene; Taming and institutionalizing jazz; Competing assessments of controversial jazz musicians; Jazz as a driver of détente from below; Notes; 8. Making jazz great again; The politics of memory; Jazz diplomacy revitalized; Jazz for peace; Notes Summary 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 Notes ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Jazz -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century Music and diplomacy -- History -- 20th century Music / History & Criticism. Social Science / Regional Studies. Diplomatic relations Music and diplomacy SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140089 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780429595363 0429595360 9780429594076 0429594070 9780429592782 0429592787 9780429060595 0429060599

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