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

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…

A new exhibition looks at the social changes of the 1920s and how they were reflected in women’s clothes of the time

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!

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Parties are more than just a fun get-together. They are an opportunity to network, meet new people and renew social bonds. What you might not be aware of is the anthropological link between parties and social standing. Essentially, according to Scientific American, a party is an opportunity to express not just your style in terms of […]

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.

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