Jazz Forbidden
There 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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