High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Negermusik ("Negro Music") was a pejorative term used by the Nazis during the Third Reich to signify musical styles and performances by African-Americans that were of the Jazz and Swing music genres. They viewed these musical styles in a racist fashion as inferior works belonging to an "inferior race" and therefore prohibitive. The term, at that same time, was also applied to indigenous music styles of black Africans. In post-war 1950s Germany the musical genre of rock `n` roll still carried this same association.