RAPM was disbanded in 1932 and along with its disbandment a lot of the disdain for jazz went a long with it.
Throughout the 30s and early 40s, jazz had sort of a rocky relationship with the government. RAPM was disbanded in 1932 and along with its disbandment a lot of the disdain for jazz went a long with it. Jazz flourished (and I use that word pretty liberally) during the mid 30s to mid 40s. During WWII, like many allied countries, jazz was played by some official war bands in order to raise morale for the troops. Things changed for the worse after the war ended as the world slowly shifted into the Cold War. While it isn’t clear on who gave the order (the sources that I’ve read have placed the blame on different people), jazz fell under an large umbrella of Western culture that was banned from the Soviet Union. Due to the rising popularity of jazz as a “high brow” culture in America and other Western countries, it was viewed as bourgeois culture.