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Jazz Age

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1. Jazz Age - Noun

2. Jazz Age - Proper noun

Meaning

the 1920s in the United States characterized in the novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald as a period of wealth, youthful exuberance, and carefree hedonism

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Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders. F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Washington Post reviewer wrote that “Great Gatsby” author F. Scott Fitzgerald “would undoubtedly have appreciated this heady cocktail of murder, intrigue and Jazz Age excess.” Source: Internet

Cathy, a virtuoso in her own right on trumpet, then led the band through a long list of old favourites, including ‘Alexander’s Rag Time Band’, ‘Chicago’, ‘Sing, Sing, Sing’ and ‘The Sheikh of Araby’, all from the Jazz Age era. Source: Internet

James Avery Hopwood (May 28, 1882 – July 1, 1928), was an American playwright, called the most successful playwright of the Jazz Age, having four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920. Source: Internet

A vivid biography of a Jazz Age pioneer in modernist art, literature and photography. Source: Internet

"New York City’s Jazz Age bubbled under the surface with sadistic criminals who went day-to-day undetected. Source: Internet

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