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African American Jazz
Musicians in the Diaspora is a
book that examines the
migration of Jazz Musicians to France, Germany, England, Holland, Russia, China,
Japan, Turkey, Morocco, and other countries from the end of World War I to the
present. These musicians found that the Jim Crow Laws were not universal,
and they were hailed as the epitome of high culture all over the world. For
example, soprano saxophone virtuoso Sidney Bechet played at England's Buckingham
Palace in 1919, and he fraternized with King George V who remarked to Bechet
that his favorite song of the evening was the Characteristic Blues.
At the same time, a new wave of violence against African Americans was taking
place: it is known as The
Red Summer of 1919. (This link to pbs.org is slow, so please be patient.)
The cultural impact that these musicians had abroad was
staggering; today, it is somewhat difficult to fathom that people willingly
risked their lives by listening to African American jazz on the radio, but this
was commonplace in Nazi Germany and a rich jazz record smuggling trade went on
in the record stores. Labels from Johann Sebastian Bach albums were often placed
on coveted Duke Ellington or Count Basie albums, while the Luftwaffe's pilots
tuned in the BBC to listen to "good" jazz when they were supposed to
be bombing the radio tower: somehow, they never hit the tower. Thus, even in one
of the most extremely repressive periods in modern history, jazz music brought
people at both extremes together as Nazi officers printed and distributed
newsletters at the Russian Front detailing where saxophonist Benny Carter would
be playing. The extent to which jazz has influenced global politics and culture
over time is remarkable, and African
American Jazz Musicians in the Diaspora unifies the disparate strands of
this understudied phenomenon. The book's bibliography includes:
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