2. Table of Content
Introduction
What is Jazz?
Jazz Before War
What does Jazz mean to the people?
Impact of War Towards Jazz
What does Jazz represent?
What has changed?
Wartime Jazz Artists
Wartime Jazz Videos
3. Jazz Music
A style of music, native to America, characterized by a
strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and
ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns
and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom.
4. Jazz
1700s
African American slavery era
1800s
America “Land of opportunity”
1900s
New Orleans Jazz
Dixieland
5. What Jazz Mean to The
People
African American People
World War II
7. What jazz represents?
Used to represent rebelliousness, elegance and class
i.e. speakeasies (by no means scrappy), prohibitions etc
Characteristics stayed but deeper meaning entered
Reminder of home for soldiers
i.e. Artie Shaw’s band that played for the Navy
8. What has changed?
Reminds people of the war
Reminds veteran of home
More emotion
Raises morale of soldiers and population
Jazz is now known all over the world
i.e. Nazi banned jazz but eventually was not able to
contain it, causing them to create their own jazz music
10. Glenn Miller
Glenn was a famous big band
leader in sing era
He was one of the best-selling
recording artists from 1939 to
1943
On 1942 Glenn joined U.S
military army
At 1944 hee died on aeroplane
accident
11. Bob Crosby
For dixieland style, Bob Crosby are one of the famous
Big band leader in world war 2 era
He is most well known by his group Bob Cat
During world war 2, he spent most of his
time in marine and air-ing on the radio
In modern era, lot of his songs are used in
video games
13. Jazz Music Made During
World War I:
Over There
By: George M. Cohan
14.
15. Description
Jazz boosted the morale of soldiers fighting abroad and
inspire the spirits of their loved ones at home to arise
Many Jazz musicians travel abroad to entertain the U.S.
troops.
This was the song that made during the world war I.
21. Description
Django Reinhardt was a jazz musician during the World
War II, which targeted by the Nazis
During that time, jazz was believed to combine the worst
Blacks and Jews
23. Bibliography
Jazz and World War II: A Rally to Resistance, A Catalyst for
Victory, edsitement.neh.gov, 23 Sept 2010, 30 Jan
2013, <http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/jazz-and-
world-war-ii-rally-resistance-catalyst-victory#sect-thelesson>
A History of Jazz Music, www.scaruffi.com, 2005, Piero
Scaruffi, 30 Jan
2013, <http://www.scaruffi.com/history/jazz1.html>
History of Jazz, teacher.scholastic.com, N/A, 30 Jan
2013, <http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/hist
ory_of_jazz.htm>
25. Bibliography
How Django Reindhart Survived World War II;
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/03/12/how
-django-reinhardt-survived-world-war-ii/ (no mla)
Music as War Propaganda;
http://parlorsongs.com/issues/2004-
4/thismonth/feature.php (no mla)
Music as Propaganda World War I;
http://www.angelfire.com/ky3/jazzandww2/ (no m