Jazz Age

English

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^[1], →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.

See also

• Roaring Twenties