The jazz age

St. Louis Cotton Club Band. Photograph by Block Brothers Studio, ca. 1925. Missouri History Museum Photographs and Prints Collections. Block Brothers Studio Collection. N27534.

The Roaring Twenties is a phrase used to describe the 1920s, principally in North America, but also in London, Berlin and Paris. The phrase was meant to emphasize the period’s socia…

The premiere of The Jazz Singer at the Warners' Theatre, Broadway, New York City. October 6, 1927.

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US History: 9.04 Describe challenges to traditional practices in religion, race, and gender. During the 1920s, traditional social norms were challenged. Among the norms challenged were how women were supposed to behave. This picture shows flappers, icons of new found sexual freedom for women. This allows students to understand what flappers looked like and how their style of dress differed from women before them.

As a way to look back on the Dirty Thirties and the dark era in history that it was, we’ve put together a list of the best modern TV shows set in the 1930s!

Reworking his past material as jazz instrumentals, Bryan Ferry's The Jazz Age is a self-consciously 1920s collection, openly meant to evoke Louis Armstrong, early Count Basie, and the initial mass popularization of the form.