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http://www.openculture.com/2013/07/louis-armstrong-plays-trumpet-at-the-egyptian-pyramids-dizzy-gillespie-charms-a-snake-in-pakistan.html
Individual artists' pages and details of the visits, etc...
Jam Session: America's Jazz Ambassadors Embrace The World
http://www.meridian.org/jazzambassadors/
MADem
(135,425 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,776 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)The nation once was led by a Liberal Democrat who believed that the arts were important.
http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Arts-and-Culture-in-the-Kennedy-White-House.aspx
Music and the arts are international language. Now the only thing Washington understands is cash.
MerryBlooms
(11,776 posts)and considered critical in order to become a well-rounded and healthy human.
Art is a waste of time and money! 3 R's! TEST TEST TEST. Bah humbug!
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Educated, enlightened, thinking, compassionate, well-rounded and creative people are the backbone of democracy. So, we can't have that as they might endanger the plutocrats with their "ideas."
Liberal Democrats I admire are unafraid of ideas, new or old. Ideas that conflict with their own thinking are especially appreciated for that is how we learn new things and better ways of doing them.
Do you enjoy Duckman, MerryBlooms? If so, a little humor that's relatively safe for work about a town based on the belief that the chicken came first...
MerryBlooms
(11,776 posts)looking forward to watching this clip-- thanks for the link.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)I honestly feel I grew as a person when I finally (far too late) discovered jazz. I wish I had come to it as a child.
malthaussen
(17,230 posts)-- Mal
Proud Public Servant
(2,097 posts)Last edited Mon Jul 13, 2015, 02:07 PM - Edit history (1)
is the American Music Abroad program, which is part of the area of the State Department I work in (public diplomacy). American Music Abroad promotes jazz and also other American music -- both that which has found a world audience (like blues and hip-hop) and that which is relatively unknown in other countries (like bluegrass, gospel, and zydeco). When I head overseas again next year, I'll be in a position to program such visits, and I'm already excited about the potential concerts I might get to organize.
MerryBlooms
(11,776 posts)What an incredible adventure... I'm green with envy. I hope you'll journal and treat us here on DU to an excerpt or two of your travels/experiences.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)it often backfired, with the players getting treated leagues better than in Memphis
also the CIA wasn't that good at music criticism (surprise, surprise)
MerryBlooms
(11,776 posts)Proud Public Servant
(2,097 posts)I got to meet the author (she's a professor at Univ. of Michigan) at an event at the National Archive last year during Jazz Appreciation Month; I think she was surprised at how much I enthused about it. Really good read if you're interested in jazz history.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)My parents loved Louis Armstrong and his trip behind the iron curtain was supposed to be a major news story, talked about on national TV for several days. Eastern Europeans loved American jazz. However, Armstrong supposedly just couldn't stand it anymore as far as the treatment of black people in America was concerned. It was in the days of violent and racist opposition to integration in the public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. His major act of public protest made national headlines. At least, that's how I remember it.