Sopros diplomáticos e jazz de protesto: conflitos imperialistas dos EUA entre as décadas de 1950 e 1960 através da música

• Autor(a) principal: Pereira, Pedro Azeredo Penellas
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/32824
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA; Jazz; Diplomacia; Soft power; Rebelião e movimento negro; Jazz; Diplomacy; Soft power; Rebellion , and Black Power

The aim of this article is to analyze the jazz through social, historical, and diplomatic process during the decades of 1950 and 1960, when the music was used as a soft power for the dissemination of American Way of Life by the government of the U.S, and, at the same time, as a way of protest against the racial segregation and for the support of the civil rights. While musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck and Benny Goodman did tours for the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe sponsored by the U.S government, being called “jazz diplomats”, other musicians such as Charles Mingus, Max Roach, John Coltrane and Nina Simone would build a vanguard, composing musics condemning racism in the U.S,bringing african influences for jazz and protesting together with the radicalization of black power and for the civil rights