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... In 1956 Dizzy Gillespie became the first jazz musician to participate in the State Department’s Cultural Presentations program, a highly public aspect of the US government’s Cold War propaganda efforts abroad. Seeking to capitalize on this historic moment, Gillespie’s record label issued two LPs...

... The historical literature on Mexico during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is vast and growing at a dizzying pace. This brief essay lists some of the most important scholarly works in English. The references and bibliographies contained in these works provide points of departure for further...

... and creative engagement outside national borders. This essay traces this invocatory practice in the works of W. C. Handy, Dizzy Gillespie, and Wynton Marsalis, showing their musical resourcefulness to be inextricable from the nation’s imperial proclivities. Musicians engage an intersensory, affective...

... outside national borders. This essay traces this invocatory practice in the works of W. C. Handy, Dizzy Gillespie, and Wynton Marsalis, showing their musical resourcefulness to be inextricable from the nation’s imperial proclivities. Musicians engage an intersensory, affective, cognitive, discursive...