In times of conflict, society has often turned to the arts in order to cope with and make sense of the world’s shifting socioeconomic and political matters. In addition to that, music and art have often been used as a type of call to action. Especially before the twentieth century, music in war has been used in the form of drum cadences for marching into combat, as well as summoning servicemen into battle (Dobney). The rise of American jazz music in the 1920s challenged traditional values by bringing together different cultures despite economic and racial differences. In the world of visual art, Pablo Picasso’s abstract painting “Guernica” expressed heavy antiwar sentiment by displaying tortured individuals in black and white. The disorderly
