1. Jazz & War
Shavira
Adrian
Batara
Ronaldo

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

6. Impact of War towards
Jazz

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

9. Wartime Jazz Artists

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

12. Famous Jazz Artist during Wartime
Era

13. Jazz Music Made During
World War I:
Over There
By: George M. Cohan

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.

16. Jazz Before World War

18. Description
 The Excelsior Brass Band formed in 1880
 In 1884, they improve the band by featured a cornet
player named Manuel Perez

19. Jazz During World War
II
Django Reinhardt

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

22. Bibliography
 “Glenn Miller” BioTrueStory, James, 30-1-2013,<
http://www.biography.com/people/glenn-miller-37990>
 “Biography Glenn Miller” Allmusic, William Ruhlmann, 30-
1-2013<http://www.allmusic.com/artist/glenn-miller-
mn0000661172>
 “Bob Crosby” Allmusic, Scott Yanow, 30-1-2013
<http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bob-crosby-
mn0000067337>

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>

24. Bibliography
 http://www.historyjazz.com/jazzhistory.html
 http://www.angelfire.com/ky3/jazzandww2/

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