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Copy of Jazz Music
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Beginning in Germany
- Roaring Twenties
- Weimar Republic
- Criticism
- 1933
After WW1
growing prosperity
Aim of Music
JAZZ Music and Nazi Rejection
"Racially Impure"
- Music anti Nazi and Subversive
Hitler's view
(1933)
- Jewish composers were rejected
and censored and sent into into exile.
Richard Wagner
- Nazis associated Jazz music with Black
Americans.
- Only truly Aryans could play Wagner's music
- The Reich controlled all radio stations
Anti Jazz Propaganda: Swing and N***** Music must disappear
"Disgusting things are going on. We have no sympathy for fools who want to transplant jungle music to Germany... Germans have no N***** in them"
The Swing Kids
Conclusion
- Rebels
- Mainly middle-class teenagers
- Listened to banned Jazz Music
- Danced American dances
- Mixed with Jews
- Dressed in Americans clothes
Swing Kids were persecuted by the Gestapo
Despite the prohibition of Jazz Music in many different ways including Jazz musicians and Jazz fans. Hitler never never accomplished his goal of eliminating Jazz from the Third Reich.
Key Musicians in the Nazi Germany
- Richard Wagner
- Johannes Brahms
- Walter Bruno
- Wilhelm Furtwangler
- Von Karajan
Jazz Music in Nazi Germany
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