[HN Gopher] How Louis Armstrong shaped the sound of Ghana
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       How Louis Armstrong shaped the sound of Ghana
        
       Author : prmph
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2025-02-17 16:15 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | pjot wrote:
       | The impacts of this on today's music is unreal.
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       | WWOZ is the local station and its djs are musical historians.
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       | Enjoy https://www.wwoz.org/listen/player/
        
       | johnea wrote:
       | There's actually a documentary about the CIA's unknowing use of
       | jazzs musicians to infiltrate African countries:
       | 
       | Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundtrack_to_a_Coup_d'Etat
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       | Louis Armstrong amung them...
        
       | mmooss wrote:
       | _The trip was arranged by famed American broadcast journalist
       | Edward R. Murrow, who, according to the 2016 Georgetown
       | University exhibit "Jazz Ambassador Louis Armstrong, Ghana 1956,"
       | "was eager to see what impact the city's cultural life might have
       | on a performer like Louis Armstrong," ..._
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       | I'd love to know more about Accra's cultural life at the time,
       | that Murrow not only wanted to bring Armstrong but thought it
       | would have such an impact on the musician.
        
         | qingcharles wrote:
         | It's fascinating to me. My father was living in Accra at this
         | time. He was a life-long Louis Armstrong fan. I have to assume
         | he was there for this? He never mentioned it.
        
       | mastazi wrote:
       | In the same way that West African music and African American
       | music are connected, in the Southern Hemisphere a similar dynamic
       | of cross-pollination exists between Angolan and Brazilian music:
       | 
       | 1. Forced migration from Angola to Brazil, caused by slavery. As
       | a result new genres of Brazilian Popular Music are influenced by
       | traditional Angolan music
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       | 2. Brazilian Music makes its way back into Angola, new Angolan
       | styles are influenced by Samba and other Brazilian genres.
       | 
       | As an aside: don't miss out on this stuff. In my experience while
       | most people in the English-speaking world are familiar with Bossa
       | Nova, they rarely check out other Brazilian styles like Samba,
       | Choro etc. and Angolan music like Kizomba and Semba. These are
       | very rich musical traditions and if you have a look you will not
       | be disappointed.
        
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