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  2. Jazz Age - Wikipedia

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    The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions were primarily felt in the United States, the birthplace of jazz.

  3. 1920s in jazz - Wikipedia

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    In 1920, the jazz age was underway and was indirectly fueled by prohibition of alcohol. [5] In Chicago, the jazz scene was developing rapidly, aided by the immigration of over 40 prominent New Orleans jazzmen to the city, continuous throughout much of the 1920s, including The New Orleans Rhythm Kings who began playing at Friar's Inn. [5]

  4. Roaring Twenties - Wikipedia

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    Historian Kathy J. Ogren wrote that, by the 1920s, jazz had become the "dominant influence on America's popular music generally" [61] Scott DeVeaux argues that a standard history of jazz has emerged such that: "After an obligatory nod to African origins and ragtime antecedents, the music is shown to move through a succession of styles or ...

  5. Old-School Slang Words That Really Deserve a Comeback

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    During the "Jazz Age," the expression was picked up by the African American community in the US. ... This is probably what Gen Xers would have been called in the 1920s by every other generation ...

  6. 1920 in jazz - Wikipedia

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    “One can plausibly argue that the debate over jazz was just one of many that characterized American social discourse in the 1920s” (Ogren 3). In 1919, jazz was being described to white people as “a music originating about the turn of the twentieth century in New Orleans that featured wind instruments exploiting new timbres and performance techniques and improvisation” (Murchison 97).

  7. Jazz - Wikipedia

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    From 1920 to 1933, Prohibition in the United States banned the sale of alcoholic drinks, resulting in illicit speakeasies which became lively venues of the "Jazz Age", hosting popular music, dance songs, novelty songs, and show tunes. Jazz began to get a reputation as immoral, and many members of the older generations saw it as a threat to the ...

  8. The man who captured the jazz age on film - AOL

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    Huene, the Russian aristocrat turned bohemian shutterbug, was a major figure in the cultural fizz of Paris and New York during the 1920s and 1930s but, having died in 1968 before the fine art ...

  9. Années folles - Wikipedia

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    The Années folles (French pronunciation: [ane fɔl], "crazy years" in French) was the decade of the 1920s in France. It was coined to describe the social, artistic, and cultural collaborations of the period. [1] The same period is also referred to as the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age in the United States.