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Louis Armstrong: Satchmo in Ghana
Satchmo in Ghana — Black People in Music
What happens when the trumpet that invented American music goes home?
May 1956. Louis Armstrong — Satchmo, the genius from New Orleans who taught the world how to swing — lands in Accra. Thirteen bands on the tarmac. A hundred thousand people at the Polo Grounds. A song that left Louisiana generations ago and made it back before he did.
This isn't just a concert. This is Cold War America trying to use Black music as a weapon, a future African president in the crowd, and a grandson of slavery standing on African soil saying, "This is my country too."…
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