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The Jazz Age (1929) is a sound part-talkie film starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Marceline Day, and Joel McCrea in his first leading role. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles.
- Jazz in The 20s
- The Protean Genre of Vaudeville
- White Americans and Black Jazz
- Fitzgerald’s Relationship with Jazz – and Race
It is difficult to overstate the pre-eminence of jazz in the early twentieth century in America, appearing as a theme in everything from clubs to cartoons to realist fiction. “For the makers, consumers, and arbiters of culture,” the theater and music scholar David Savran wrote in 2006, “jazz was everything. A weltanschauung, a personal identity, a ...
Vaudeville was one of the most enduring forms of entertainment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. A protean genre, it contained just about everything: skits, song-and-dance routines, comedy performances, minstrel shows, sketches, and more. Many popular acts included unusual sounds on stage, using washboards, saws, and other househo...
As the scholar Maureen Anderson points out, white Americans swiftly condemned this new, ubiquitous music. “Unspeakable Jazz Must Go,” read one headline; another, more overtly racist, argued “Why ‘Jazz’ Sends Us Back to the Jungle.” Critics who wished to demean African-Americans now had a new way to do so, through vitriolic articles about jazz. Inde...
Fitzgerald’s embrace of jazz, then, was both an acceptance of popular music and a rejection of these racist critiques. Although the word “jazz” only appears a few times in the Great Gatsby, the music itself is ever-present; when music is playing in the background, Fitzgerald frequently refers to saxophones and horns, iconic instruments of the genre...
The Jazz Age (1929) is a sound part-talkie film starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Marceline Day, and Joel McCrea in his first leading role. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking sequences, the film features a synchronized musical score and sound effects along with English intertitles.
The 1920s, often referred to as the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age, was an iconic era of social and cultural revolution. From glamorous flappers to the birth of jazz music, the decade left an indelible mark on popular culture.
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- Whiplash (2014) Directed by Damien Chazelle. Starring Miles Teller, J. K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist. Drama, Music, Thriller (1h 46m) 8.5 on IMDb — 94% on RT.
- La La Land (2016) Directed by Damien Chazelle. Starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Rosemarie DeWitt. Comedy, Drama, Music (2h 8m) 8.0 on IMDb — 91% on RT. When Seb Wilder (played by Ryan Gosling) tells Mia (played by Emma Stone) about his love for jazz, she immediately laughs at him.
- Soul (2020) Directed by Pete Docter and Kemp Powers. Starring Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton. Animation, Adventure, Comedy (1h 40m) 8.0 on IMDb — 95% on RT.
- Mo' Better Blues (1990) Directed by Spike Lee. Starring Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes. Drama, Music, Romance (2h 10m) 6.7 on IMDb — 71% on RT.
The Jazz Age. F. Scott Fitzgerald described 1920s America as the Jazz Age - an era of speakeasies, short haircuts, even shorter dresses and jazz. The economy was booming and Americans could spend their disposable income on new radios, cars and trips to the cinema.
May 10, 2013 · Published in 1925, The Great Gatsby was the quintessence of this period of his work, and evoked the romanticism and surface allure of his “Jazz Age”—years that began with the end of World War I,...
