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The jazz age started after the war ended. After the war lots of people had money and with that the jazz age was born.
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The 1920's were an age of dramatic social and political change. Most Americans lived in big cities. The nation's total wealth doubled between 1920 and 1929. With the economic boom following the WW1, most people could get credit. Money was spent on party's, clothing, and cars.
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The effects of jazz upon society can be a close examination of different aspects of popular culture.
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The 1920s in the United States was called roaring because of the exuberant, freewheeling popular culture of the decade. The Roaring Twenties was a time when many people defied Prohibition, indulged in new styles of dancing and dressing, and rejected many traditional moral standards.
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- Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti were the first musicians to incorporate the guitar and violin into jazz.
- Jazz-influenced dance music and it became widely popular throughout the decade
- Original Dixieland Jazz Band were known as the band who recorded the first album ever.
- Music in particular underwent drastic changes that accurately represented the cultural evolution that was occurring during that decade of the twenties.
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There were alot of insturments involed in jazz music. The major ones are:
- Saxophone
- Trumpet
- Trombone
- Piano
- Drums
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Jazz was originated in New Orleans, Creole, and African American communities, as well as strong influences of French culture.
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The 1920s is the decade in which fashion entered the modern era. It was the decade in which women first abandoned the more restricting fashions of past years and began to wear more comfortable clothes. This where the ear where we can see flapper girls.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's book the "Great Gatsby" was based on the Jazz Age. He is the one who actually named this time in history "The Jazz Age".
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The jazz era ended with the great depression. All though the jazz ear ended, jazz has lived on in American popular culture.
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-The Jazz Age was the period of time between the end of World War I and the Great Depression.
- Jazz music is a combination of Ragtime, marching band music and blues.
- Jazz brought dozens of new dance steps to America.
- Women began going to bars, drinking, smoking and wearing more revealing clothing.
- Women at this period also had the right to vote finally.
