The Jazz Age
With his 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald popularized a label for the heady, freewheeling years of the early 1920s.The following websites and articles explore the culture during this memorable time.
Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s This site from the National Humanities Center has a broad range of primary documents, images, and films from the 1920s that explore the age of modernity and the social institutions that shaped it. 1920-30.com: The 1920s in History This site has pages on dance, flappers, hairstyles, art--as well as politics, business, and even aviation. It's a good place to explore and find out something new. 1920s Fashion and Music This page is dedicated to (you guessed it) 1920s fashion and music. It is attractive and well designed, and gives a quick feel for the era. The Rise of the Flapper This article on Mental Floss gives an introduction to flappers, young women whose unprecedented fashion and free manner suggested a bold new direction for the rising generation. Topics in Chronicling America—The Rise of the Flapper This page from the Library of Congress taps into the library's Historic Newspaper collection for timely articles from the 1920s both celebrating and decrying the newest trend. Flappers and the Roaring 20s This page from thedandy.org has a huge number of links to sites about flappers and other cultural phenomena of the age. Echoes of the Jazz Age, by F. Scott Fitzgerald This 1931 essay (below) gives a look back at the decade he helped define. What is his attitude about it ten years later?
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