For 40 years, Berlin remained an ideological battleground between the Stasi and CIA. The West used jazz diplomacy and broadcasts, activists smuggled …
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Jazz and the Jazz Age
In the 1920s Jazz music became one of the defining aspects of American culture, blending a range of musical styles into something uniquely modern.
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First came the blues and then came jazz. The origins of the blues can be traced to the human catastrophe of American slavery in the Mississippi …
The Cotton Club was the riotous nightclub of the roaring twenties and the Harlem Renaissance, where African American performers made radical new …
1920s America saw many changes following the First World War. One such change was the liberation of women and the beginning of the flapper movement.
Known as the Jazz Age, the 1920s in the West heralded new ideas of liberation, consumerism, and a culture of excess. What makes the Roaring Twenties …
