The jazz ambassadors, producer, Mick Csaky [and others] ; director, Hugo Berkeley
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The jazz ambassadors, producer, Mick Csaky [and others] ; director, Hugo Berkeley
Language
eng
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videorecording
Main title
The jazz ambassadors
Medium
videorecording
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1034805537
Responsibility statement
producer, Mick Csaky [and others] ; director, Hugo Berkeley
Runtime
90
Summary
In 1955, as the Soviet Union's pervasive propaganda about the U.S. and American racism spread globally, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. convinced President Eisenhower that jazz was the best way to intervene in the Cold War cultural conflict. For the next decade, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Dave Brubeck traveled the globe to perform as cultural ambassadors
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
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