Jazz Age
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Popularized by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Tales of the Jazz Age (1922).
Proper noun
[edit]- (historical) A period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity in the United States.
- 2008 February 13, William Grimes, “There Will Be Scandal: An Oil Stain on the Jazz Age”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- 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.
