India, Oct. 5 -- The Louis Armstrong House Museum recently opened "Armstrong in Ghana," a compelling exhibition at the Louis Armstrong Center.
The exhibition explores the American and global icon navigating cultural and political complexities as he toured his music throughout the world in the 1950s and 1960s. This year-long, limited engagement, archival and contemporary art exhibition will travel with partners in Accra.
The 60,000-piece Armstrong Archive includes an array of artifacts, recordings, pictures and documents pertaining to his tour through Africa, including the Gold Coast as it transitioned out of British colonial control to a newly independent Ghana. The new exhibition, curated by Executive Director Regina Bain, will utilize t...