Jazz Age

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Etymology

Popularized by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Tales of the Jazz Age (1922).

Proper noun

the Jazz Age

  1. (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, →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.

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