Jazz The Forbidden
MusicThere was a time in
history when Jazz the music was banned during World War II
when it was considered a plight for freedom against
Hitler's Nazi regime due to what it represents. Jazz music
is the product of America that was creatively invented by
African American from culture, and all the elements of the
American life that influenced this style of music.
Jazz music is a symbol of freedom, hope and the ability of
express ones self in through one of best art forms which is
music. Meaning, African Americans fought oppression since the
beginning of slavery, and Jazz music represented that
resistance. Jazz music has a foundation of the basic rules of
composition, but it has since expanded its way toward newer
forms of music.
America who also gained their freedom from Europe joined showed
their patriarchy by listening to the Jazz music on records and
on the radio to encourage their fellow Americans to believe in
their country, and the freedom it stands for. Hollywood,
celebrity musicians and Jazz musicians even supported freedom
by joining patriotic films to get their point across to the
world. This act caused Hitler and Stalin to fear the effect
Jazz music would have on all who listens who could easily be
influenced by the idea of freedom, and patriotism.
In the year 1921 there were Americans who did not favor Jazz
music or the Jazz dance. There were activist who stated that
Jazz is a type of menace that is worse that alcohol, and that
it would be better to wipe Jazz out of existence. In Germany,
Jazz and all other American music was banned in the country
before and after Americans joined the war. Stalin forbid the
playing of Jazz music at the end of the 1945 war throughout the
Soviet Union, and banned the use of saxophones. Jazz was called
"the music of blacks by Hitler as a reason for the prohibition
of Jazz music. Nevertheless, Jazz music was embraced by all who
heard it around the globe.
In fact, It was adored by those who supported the resistance of
such a war. In the area of Azerbaijan the year of the 1950's
produced even more forbidden Jazz music into a new style of
Jazz known as Mugam that came from the Baku style of music. The
sound of Jazz produces an atmosphere of relaxation and freedom
that even spread to Algeria who wrote a form of Jazz that
spread all around their country and in Europe known as Rai in
the late 1960's. Though there were many haters of Jazz music
who forbid the use of it those who understood loved it.
Those who did not like Jazz wrote books on it titled "Vo do do
de o Blues" against Jazz and blues. Another title was "Anti rag
time girl" about a lady who hates Jazz music. However, when the
underground clubs broke the law discreetly to make a home for
jazz in Speakeasies they also spread the gospel of Jazz music
all around the world.
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