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Poster of a 1938 exhibition in Düsseldorf. Degenerate music (German: Entartete Musik, German pronunciation: [ɛntˈaʁtɛtə muˈziːk]) was a label applied in the 1930s by the government of Nazi Germany to certain forms of music that it considered harmful or decadent.
Negermusik ("Negro music") [1] [2] was a derogatory term used by the Nazi Party during the Third Reich to demonize musical styles that had been invented by black people such as blues and jazz. The Nazi Party viewed these musical styles as degenerate works [ 3 ] created by an "inferior" race and they were therefore prohibited.
At the time of his death, Chesnutt and Stuckey were working on a documentary about Chesnutt's music. The film, tentatively titled "Degenerate", was scheduled to be released in 2012. [20] Chesnutt's 1998 album The Salesman and Bernadette was recorded with alt-country group Lambchop as the backing band.
In addition to musicians, the exhibition also denounced musicologists, music directors, music critics, music teachers and conductors, and described their works and writings as "degenerate". Both "non-Aryan" personalities such as Alban Berg , Arnold Schoenberg or Kurt Weill as well as "Aryan" musicians such as Paul Hindemith , whose wife Gertrud ...
"Degenerate Music" was an exhibit sponsored by the Nazi regime that singled out "degeneracy" or the use of atonal music, jazz, discordant-sounding organization of tones and the individual composers and conductors, both of Aryan and non-Aryan descent.
Degenerate art, a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art Decadent movement, often associated with degeneracy; Dégénération, a single by Mylène Farmer; Degeneration, an 1892 book by Max Nordau; Resident Evil: Degeneration, a 2008 film "Degenerate", a song by Blink-182 from the album Dude Ranch
The Nazis highly censored what was considered Entartete Musik (Degenerate Music) including compositions written by Jews, Jewish sympathizers, and political opponents, as well as atonal and expressionist compositions. [2] Music and composers who did not fall into the RMK's definition of "good German music" were deprecated and then banned.
Jazz music was offensive to Nazi ideology, because it was often performed by black people and a number of Jewish musicians. They called it "Negro Music" (German: Negermusik), "degenerate music"—coined in parallel to "degenerate art" (German: entartete Kunst). [1]