For the 2012 album by Bryan Ferry, see The Jazz Age (The Bryan Ferry Orchestra album). For the 1998 album by Jack, see The Jazz Age (Jack album). For the 1929 film, see The Jazz Age (film).
Jazz Age
Part of the Roaring Twenties
King & Carter Jazzing Orchestra in Houston in 1921
Date
1920s–1930s
Location
United States
Participants
Jazz musicians and fans
Outcome
Increased popularity of jazz music in the United States
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. Originating in New Orleans as mainly sourced from the culture of African Americans, jazz played a significant part in wider cultural changes in this period, and its influence on popular culture continued long afterwards.
The Jazz Age is often referred to in conjunction with the Roaring Twenties, and overlapped in significant cross-cultural ways with the Prohibition Era. The movement was largely affected by the introduction of radios nationwide. During this time, the Jazz Age was intertwined with the developing youth culture. The movement also helped introduce the European jazz movement.
The JazzAge was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. The JazzAge's cultural repercussions...
ragtime. Since the 1920s JazzAge, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by...
Tales of the JazzAge (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter...
was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire. —F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Echoes of the JazzAge" "Echoes...
Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the JazzAge on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator...
time, jazz and dancing rose in popularity, in opposition to the mood of World War I. As such, the period often is referred to as the JazzAge. The 1920s...
examines the lives and morality of carefree American youth at the dawn of the JazzAge. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive middle-class student at...
Taylor, D.J. (2009). Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's JazzAge. New York: DFarrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0374116835. (U.S edition)...
Jazz standards are musical compositions that are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed...
purposes—ragtime and jazz dance music and theater music. The Great Depression is a visible line to mark the end of the JazzAge. The economic downturn...
Jazz in the Space Age is an album by George Russell originally released on Decca in 1960. The album contains tracks conducted and arranged by Russell...
A jazz club is a venue where the primary entertainment is the performance of live jazz music, although some jazz clubs primarily focus on the study and/or...
Gershwin's most recognizable creations and a key composition that defined the JazzAge. Gershwin's piece inaugurated a new era in America's musical history, established...
in the JazzAge is a 2004 book by historian Kevin Boyle, published by Henry Holt. The book chronicles racism in Detroit during the 1920s JazzAge through...
Annie until its cancellation in 2010. He also draws the color webcomic JazzAge Chronicles, a comic based in 1920s Boston. He is now the artist contributor...
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion, jazz rock, and jazz-rock fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz...
Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", is a form of jazz in the United States and Britain that flourished from the 1930s to 1960s, based on the earlier...
was considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for prevailing codes of decent behavior. Flappers...
The Utah Jazz are an American professional basketball team based in Salt Lake City. The Jazz compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a...
Fraser (14 June 1957 – 23 December 2022), better known by his stage name Maxi Jazz, was a British musician, rapper, singer, songwriter and DJ. He was the lead...
indicated on the list. A period known as the "JazzAge" started in the United States in the 1920s. Jazz had become popular music in the country, although...
Global Information