Latest content added for UNT Digital Library Searchhttps://digital2.library.unt.edu/search/?t=fulltext&fq=str_degree_department%3AMusic+Library2022-06-15T15:11:24-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for searching UNT Digital Library Search“Liberated from Serfdom”: Willis Conover and the Tallinn Jazz Festival of 19672022-06-15T15:11:24-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1944125/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1944125/"><img alt="“Liberated from Serfdom”: Willis Conover and the Tallinn Jazz Festival of 1967" title="“Liberated from Serfdom”: Willis Conover and the Tallinn Jazz Festival of 1967" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1944125/thumbnail/"/></a></p><p>This book chapter presents the Charles Lloyd Quartet’s performance at the 1967 Tallinn Jazz Festival, which broke the “stagecraft” of prior jazz diplomacy with the Soviet Union, and proceeded despite numerous official attempts to derail it, as a case study in the effectiveness of Willis Conover’s approach over the twelve years since his Voice of America program began in 1955.</p>