10 Facts About Jazz Age

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Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained nationwide popularity in the United States.

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The Jazz Age is often referred to in conjunction with the Roaring Twenties, and in the United States, it overlapped in significant cross-cultural ways with the Prohibition Era.

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Jazz Age is a music genre that originated in the Black-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz Age is generally characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation.

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The resulting illicit speakeasies that grew from this era became lively venues of the "Jazz Age", hosting popular music that included current dance songs, novelty songs and show tunes.

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Jazz Age was played in these speakeasies as a countercultural type of music to fit in with the illicit environment and events going on.

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7.

Jazz Age liked to come into a club with his henchmen and have the band play his requests.

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Jazz Age's has grown through the ages to be one of the most well respected singers of all time and inspired later performers such as Billie Holiday.

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Jazz Age's worked with all the jazz greats of the era, including Chick Webb, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Benny Goodman.

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10.

Jazz Age latitude is marked as indelibly on the globe as the heavy line of the equator.

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