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In a country that was dealing with Civil Rights issues at home and was trying to protect the country’s current racial issues, the emergence of the Cold War only brought a host of new problems for the United States as propaganda warfare began with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union began to accentuate the racial issues occurring in the United States between white and African Americans, such as the case of 14-year-old Emmett Till who was brutally murder for flirting with a white woman in a store, emphasizing the negative aspects of having a democracy. During the heat of this crisis, the United States needed a solution to help extinguish the flames of the past, regarding the racial inequality that existed among blacks and whites, and to help ease …show more content…
This was deemed necessary as competition began to heat up between the United States and the Soviet Union to impress the newly independent nations that Europe began to give up, in places like Asia and Africa. When the State Department and the Eisenhower administration were considering Powell’s proposal of using jazz ambassadors, the government felt it was of great importance that the jazz ambassadors reach all walks of life. After Powell’s proposal was accepted, the first jazz tour was scheduled to begin in the year 1956 with Dizzy Gillespie and his band members. His itinerary embraced 13 countries, 10 in the Near East and Ceylon, and three India and Afghanistan. The first worldwide jazz tours proved to be highly successful due to sold out shows and the overwhelming admiration that the United States received from the audience. One of the highest forms of praise were delivered through the media, which proved to be beneficial for the United States in their propaganda race with the Soviet Union; such as in newspaper articles, television, and radio. For example, one Gillespie concert attendee in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, was moved when she exclaimed, “What this country needs is fewer ambassadors and more jam sessions!” According to Dr. Curtis Sandberg, jazz diplomacy had …show more content…
Their presence was not only important on stage, but off the stage as well. The position of the jazz ambassadors included numerous scheduled encounters to meet with top ranked officials from other nations and to make friends and celebrate with younger children. Sangberg states, “The musicians were determined to make friends and they did so successfully.” The image jazz presented became a symbol of hope for racial and cultural equality, one that was not explicitly for black or whites, but rather a combination of the two cultures. This helped to show the world that America was indeed making strides towards racial equality. The representation of racial equality on stage in combination with the “euphoria” effect that was produced when the jazz ambassadors played, helped to break through the image of racial hierarchy that existed within America and throughout the rest of the world. Outside of the ______ jazz theatres, reality was that racial hierarchies and racism still existed. Although, jazz became a tool used by the United States to attempt to attack racial hierarchies that still loomed and to ease the Cold War tensions by creating a pleasurable musical

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