Jazz In The 1920's

The Jazz Age was a time after World War 1. It was a time when music and dance became a popular thing. Jazz originated in New Orleans. It was a fusion between African and European music. ¨The Jazz Age¨ is often referred to as ¨The Roaring Twenties¨. Even though The Jazz Age ended with the beginning of The Great Depression in 1929, Jazz has lived on in the modern pop culture. What was it like during this time period? The older people were scared that the younger generation lost their morals. The youth used the influence of Jazz music to rebel against the traditional culture of previous generations. They rebelled with things like flappers, smoking cigarettes, free talk about sex, and new radio concerts. Dances like the charleston, made by African

Economic growth in the 1920´s was impressive because of ownership of cars, new household appliances, and housing was spread widely through the population. New products and processes of producing those products drove this growth. The combination of the widening use of electricity in production and the growing adoption of the moving assembly line in manufacturing combined to bring on a continuing rise in the productivity of labor and capital. Though the average workweek in most manufacturing remained essentially constant throughout the 1920's, in a few industries such as railroads and coal production, it declined. New services and products created new markets such as the markets for radio, electric iceboxes, electric irons, electric fans, electric lighting, vacuum cleaners, and other labor saving household appliances. This electricity was distributed by the growing electric utilities. Like the internet boom of the 1990´s, the electricity boom of the 1920´s fed a rapid expansion in the stock market. Fed by the continuing productivity advances and new products and services and facilitated by an environment of stable prices that encouraged production and risk taking, the american economy embarked on a sustained expansion in the