Before Second World War, jazz was at his peak. Belgian national bands were acclaimed all over Europe. Those were the times of the national radio jazz orchestra conducted by Stan Brenders. How could this music that stood for a more modern and free world was eventually used as propaganda under occupation? This was the very question that rose into Brender's mind who was about to face the moral backfire of his life. Can music be free under ennemi lines?
How did jazz music, a simple mean of expression of modernity in the 30s and 40s, became propaganda under the nazi occupation?
You will discover it with the television broadcast on March 31 at 11:45 pm on La Trois (RTBF) and Auvio, of the documentary MANNEKEN SWING by Julien Bechara & David Deroy.
