Best of Doc in Corsica #7 / Screening of the documentary film Soundtrack to a Coup d'État by Johan Grimonprez at the Sollacaro library, followed by a debate and a convivial Spuntinu.
Summary:
All audiences
Jazz, politics and decolonisation intertwine in this historical rollercoaster that reveals an incredible episode in the Cold War.
In 1961, singer Abbey Lincoln and drummer Max Roach, civil rights activists and jazz figures, interrupted a session of the UN Security Council to protest against the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo.
In this country in the throes of civil war, the uranium-rich subsoil fuelled Western interference.
The UN became the arena for a major geopolitical showdown, and Louis Armstrong, appointed "Jazz Ambassador", was sent on a mission to the Congo by the United States to divert attention from the CIA-backed coup...
Free screening.
For Spuntinu: bring whatever you'd like to share.
Summary:
All audiences
Jazz, politics and decolonisation intertwine in this historical rollercoaster that reveals an incredible episode in the Cold War.
In 1961, singer Abbey Lincoln and drummer Max Roach, civil rights activists and jazz figures, interrupted a session of the UN Security Council to protest against the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the newly independent Congo.
In this country in the throes of civil war, the uranium-rich subsoil fuelled Western interference.
The UN became the arena for a major geopolitical showdown, and Louis Armstrong, appointed "Jazz Ambassador", was sent on a mission to the Congo by the United States to divert attention from the CIA-backed coup...
Free screening.
For Spuntinu: bring whatever you'd like to share.