Abstract
This chapter analyzes two aspects of Nazi Germany through popular music made in Germany between 1933 and 1945: The organization of an everyday life, of a crude form of “normality” in a terror regime, and the constitution and functioning of selected cultural niches in the Nazi era. Popular music could thereby function as a kind of energy source for the Nazi dictatorship. It was a crucial function of popular music in National Socialism to insinuate an apparently terror-free everyday life – within a regime of extreme terror. The Nazis founded various institutions to totally regulate musical life in Germany. The nationalization of musical life as propagated by the Reichsmusikkammer led to a couple of bans: English stage names as had been popular in the Weimar Republic were forbidden, and Nazi officials started aggressive campaigns especially against African American music and dance forms such as jazz and the Charleston.
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