The Jazz Age was a period in
the 1920s, ending with the Great Depression, in which jazz music and dance styles became
popular, mainly in the United
States, but also in Britain, France and
elsewhere. Jazz originated in New
Orleans as a fusion of African and
European music and played a significant part in wider cultural changes in this
period, and its influence on pop
culture continued long afterwards. Read here.
In the 1920s America – known as
the Jazz Age, the Golden Twenties or the Roaring Twenties – everybody seemed to
have money. Read here.
