{"title":"Racial and historical considerations of Benny Goodman’s 1956 state-sponsored tour of Southeast Asia","authors":"Denin Slage-Koch","doi":"10.1558/jazz.21511","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The state-sponsored jazz diplomacy tours of the 1950s and 1960s have generally been well-documented, but Benny Goodman’s 1956 tour of Southeast Asia remains relatively under-researched. Considering the United States’ heavy military and surveillance interests in the region at the time, Goodman’s tour merits further consideration as a key element of diplomacy during the early stages of the conflict in Vietnam. In particular, Goodman’s tour, while effective, highlights American racial hypocrisy at the beginning of the Civil Rights movement in the mid-1950s. Despite this, Goodman’s efforts contributed significantly to US-Thai relations, which ultimately became one of the most important alliances of the Vietnam War.","PeriodicalId":40438,"journal":{"name":"Jazz Research Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Jazz Research Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jazz.21511","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"N/A","JCRName":"MUSIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The state-sponsored jazz diplomacy tours of the 1950s and 1960s have generally been well-documented, but Benny Goodman’s 1956 tour of Southeast Asia remains relatively under-researched. Considering the United States’ heavy military and surveillance interests in the region at the time, Goodman’s tour merits further consideration as a key element of diplomacy during the early stages of the conflict in Vietnam. In particular, Goodman’s tour, while effective, highlights American racial hypocrisy at the beginning of the Civil Rights movement in the mid-1950s. Despite this, Goodman’s efforts contributed significantly to US-Thai relations, which ultimately became one of the most important alliances of the Vietnam War.
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Jazz Research Journal explores a range of cultural and critical views on jazz. The journal celebrates the diversity of approaches found in jazz scholarship and provides a forum for interaction and the cross-fertilisation of ideas. It is a development and extension of The Source: Challenging Jazz Criticism founded in 2004 at the Leeds College of Music. The journal aims to represent a range of disciplinary perspectives on jazz, from musicology to film studies, sociology to cultural studies, and offers a platform for new thinking on jazz. In this respect, the editors particularly welcome articles that challenge traditional approaches to jazz and encourage writings that engage with jazz as a discursive practice. Jazz Research Journal publishes original and innovative research that either extends the boundaries of jazz scholarship or explores themes which are central to a critical understanding of the music, including the politics of race and gender, the shifting cultural representation of jazz, and the complexity of canon formation and dissolution. In addition to articles, the journal features a reviews section that publishes critical articles on a variety of media, including recordings, film, books, educational products and multimedia publications.
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