• DOI:10.2307/4134056
Corpus ID: 145278913

The Marketing of Duke Ellington: Setting the Strategy for an African American Maestro

@article{Cohen2004TheMO,
  title={The Marketing of Duke Ellington: Setting the Strategy for an African American Maestro},
  author={Harvey G. Cohen},
  journal={The Journal of African American History},
  year={2004},
  volume={89},
  pages={291 - 315}
}

• Harvey G. Cohen
• Published 2004
• Sociology
• The Journal of African American History

Before Duke Ellington's rise to fame in the late 1920s and early 1930s, no African American had ever been so widely hailed around the world as a serious artistic figure, without the stereotypes usually affixed to African American entertainers. In the era of harsh Jim Crow denigration and violence, before the Civil Rights Movement made organized protest common for African Americans to register their desire for equal rights, Ellington subverted and undercut racial stereotypes, changing the images… Expand