Fitzgerald's Use Of Music In The Great Gatsby

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Music in the 1920s was the age of Jazz. A lot of good songs from the 20s was on sets of broadway because the way jazz swayed the audience. Some famous songs that was played in the 20s and in The Great Gatsby was Three O'Clock in the Morning by Paul Whiteman, The Sheik of Araby by Fats Waller, Ain't We Got Fun by Van & Schenck, and Beale Street Blues by Chris Barber. These songs were an inspiration in the 20s to many people including the author Fitzgerald.
Jazz is very useful in production and in moving authors and persuading them to write about the 20s.Fitzgerald said “it was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire" in his work, Echoes of the Jazz Age.”(scott Fitzgerald)”. I believe that