Name: Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Start: 2025-02-17
End: 2025-02-18
Location: Somerville Auditorium

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It’s the early 1960s. Patrice Lumumba and the Congolese are trying to shake off Belgium's continuing, insidious colonial hold. The great Dizzy Gillespie is yet to rename the White House, the Blues House. And the CIA and US government are about to start capitalising on the growing global influence of Black America's jazz greats – from Louis Armstrong to Nina Simone – to try to surreptitiously control the future of postcolonial Africa.  

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

What do you get when you mix colonial politics, the CIA and a slew of incredible jazz icons? A wildly inventive and superbly edited documentary that makes wonderful use of a treasure trove of archives to tell a very knotty, and sometimes incredulous, history of power, music and politics.

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What do you get when you mix colonial politics, the CIA and a slew of incredible jazz icons? A wildly inventive and superbly edited documentary that makes wonderful use of a treasure trove of archives to tell a very knotty, and sometimes incredulous, history of power, music and politics.

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