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The Silent Puppeteer: Jazz Diplomacy and Music as Propaganda

Since the onset of the modern state, governments have sowed their ideological seeds into their citizenry with propaganda, often using music as a means to do so. But posters of pointing men line the streets no longer, and traveling jazz bands have faded into antiquity, leaving the question: Has musical propaganda stopped? Or has it just gotten sneakier?

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