Review: The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation, by Keith Hatschek

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Book Review| June 01 2023 Review: The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation, by Keith Hatschek Keith Hatschek. The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2022. 298 pages. Pierangelo Castagneto Pierangelo Castagneto American University in Bulgaria Pierangelo Castagneto taught American History at the American University in Bulgaria. He has been an F. Ross Johnson-Connaught Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto, a Fulbright Scholar, and has worked at the Rockefeller Archive Center and at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. Among his publications: L’oceano dei suoni. Migrazioni, musica e razze nella formazione delle società euroatlantiche (2007); Old and New Republics: The Diplomatic Relations Between the Republic of Genoa and the US (2010); Hostilities against Malaria. The Rockefeller Foundation in Bulgaria (2013); Ambassador Dizzy: Jazz Diplomacy in the Cold War Era (2014). He is the editor of Frederick Douglass, L’età delle immagini (2020). Email: pcastagneto60@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Email: pcastagneto60@gmail.com Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (2): 113–115. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.113 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Pierangelo Castagneto; Review: The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation, by Keith Hatschek. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 June 2023; 35 (2): 113–115. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.2.113 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search In an oft-quoted Life magazine editorial published in February 1941, founder Henry R. Luce famously predicted the coming of the American Century while pressuring the United States to enter World War II in order to forsake the virus of isolationism and defend freedom and democracy from tyranny. He invited his country to envision a postwar future by embracing the logic of internationalism and being “the Good Samaritan of the entire world.” In order to transform the 20th century into the American Century, the United States could have surely relied upon its economic and military power. But according to Luce, the U.S. was already a world power without knowing it: “American jazz, Hollywood movies, American slang, American machines and patented products, are in fact the only things that every community in the world, from Zanzibar to Hamburg, recognizes in common.”1 A few years later, at the height of the... You do not currently have access to this content.