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The Jazz Age
The period from the end of the First World War until the start of the Depression in 1929 is known as the "Jazz Age". Jazz had become popular music in America, although older generations considered the music immoral and threatening to old cultural values.Dances such as the Charleston and the Black Bottom were very popular during the period, and jazz bands typically consisted of seven to twelve musicians.
The rise of jazz music
The Smithsonian Museum of American History: Jazz
Jazz in NYC -- Jazz in Chicago
Tracing the poetic work of the Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance collection - Library of Congress
A brief guide of the Harlem Renaissance
This video from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross shows how, in the 1920s, New York City’s Harlem neighborhood evolved from a white middle class community into the center of an African American cultural movement, known as the Harlem Renaissance.
Art / Art Deco architecture
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