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Jazz Age
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Etymology
Popularized by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Tales of the Jazz Age (1922).
Proper noun
Jazz Age 1
en historical A period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States.
en William Grimes There Will Be Scandal: An Oil Stain on the Jazz Age The New York Times 2008-02-13 https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/books/13grim.html 0362-4331 This is a story that has it all[:] a Jazz Age background, a pleasure-loving president surrounded by booze and chorus girls, boomtown capitalists from the Wild West, conniving politicians, mysterious suicides and a glamorous star witness named Roxy. https://web.archive.org/web/20250120190139/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/books/13grim.html 20 January 2025
See also
en Roaring Twenties
Further reading