Apr 8, 2024during the cold war, east germany’s secret police deployed 90,000 spies and 100,000 informers to keep tabs on 6 million people. Apr 10, 2025it was a source of national pride for the us state department, who by 1956, began sending jazz musicians on tours around eastern europe, the middle east, central and southern asia. 2 days agohow jazz played out over congo’s chaotic coup the murder of congo’s first post-independence leader patrice lumumba took place as famed jazzman louis armstrong was touring.
Feb 12, 2025history is a playlist crackling with fire and intrigue in “soundtrack to a coup d’etat.” the film’s heady 2½ hours are as thick with detail as a graduate seminar yet bustle like a tiktok video, a.
