Jazz was the music of the 1920s. It was the best display of black musical talent the world had ever seen. Originating with musicians in New Orleans, Louisiana, the sound soon spread across the country. Jazz grew out of ragtime and Dixieland music and...
The Jazz Age describes the period from 1918-1929, the years between the end of World War I and the start of the Roaring Twenties; ending with the rise of the Great Depression, the traditional values of this age saw great decline while the America stock...
About a dozen miles north of Washington's sparkling monuments, which celebrate American successes, one of America's saddest stories is commemorated by this inscription: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." The last words of "The Great...
FLAPPER A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern By Joshua Zeitz Crown. 338 pp. $24.95 The flapper is as dead and gone as bathtub gin, Texas Guinan, the tin lizzie and all the...
Question 1 of 10:The film industry was changed forever when the first ‘talkie’ was released in 1927. What was it called? Modern Times The Jazz Singer Birth of a Nation The General Question 2 of 10:It was in the 1920s that Al Capone...
Thousands of demonstrators shimmied down Broadway in the rain Saturday in an extravagant, ecstatic protest against the city's 80-year-old cabaret laws, which ban dancing in eating and drinking establishments that lack special licenses.There was swing, ballet, tango, tap, salsa, samba, contra, clogging, moshing, hula hooping...
In the following essay, Harding discusses the jazz criticism and theories of Theodor Adorno, which he then applies to Ralph Ellison's novel The Invisible Man.
The actions of the younger generation during the Jazz Age shocked the older generation and began a social revolution. F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, This Side of Paradise, exposed the actions of the younger generation and helped to begin the Jazz Age.
