Rio Pakistan Redux?
That headline only makes sense to the jazz heads among us. Or people who watch this video.
But no matter! Time for a bit of self-promotion: Sonic Diplomacy: American Jazz in Pakistan – Video – TIME.com. It’s my latest and last for the year for TIME Magazine but, interestingly, it was the first story I did in Pakistan. I started it way back in July and shipped the tapes to New York for editing. Due to a hard drive catastrophe, TIME.com took some time getting it up, but better late than never I usually say.
What’s interesting to me is that everyone involved knows the limitations of such cultural diplomacy programs. This isn’t the 1950s when Dizzy Gillespie went around Pakistan blown’ his horn for the locals. Today, these programs are much more proscribed and discrete. They make folks feel pretty good, but in a security environment as precarious as Pakistan’s, I’m not sure how much good they actually do. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the video.
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