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—F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Echoes of the Jazz Age" "Echoes of the Jazz Age" is a short essay by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald that was first published in Scribner's Magazine in November 1931. The essay analyzes the societal conditions in the United States which gave rise to the raucous historical era known as the Jazz Age and the subsequent events which led to the era's abrupt conclusion ...
1-4341-0001-4. Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". All of the stories had first appeared, independently, in either Metropolitan ...
Publication date. July 1, 1920 [1] " May Day " is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald published in The Smart Set in the July 1920 issue. [2] The story was included in his 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. [3] The plot follows a blithe coterie of privileged Yale alumni who meet for a social dance during the May Day riots of 1919.
Jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong gave their own sentimentalized retelling of their nomadic existence from the 1930s onward, portraying the jaunts as being as amorous as ...
Straight-ahead jazz is a genre of jazz that developed in the 1960s, with roots in the prior two decades. It omits the rock music and free jazz influences that began to appear in jazz during this period, instead preferring acoustic instruments, conventional piano comping, walking bass patterns, and swing- and bop-based drum rhythms.
Jazz is a 1992 historical novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize -winning American author Toni Morrison. The majority of the narrative takes place in Harlem during the 1920s; however, as the pasts of the various characters are explored, the narrative extends back to the mid-19th-century American South . The novel forms the second part of Morrison's ...
"How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928) is an essay by Zora Neale Hurston published in The World Tomorrow, described as a "white journal sympathetic to Harlem Renaissance writers". [1] [2] Coming from an all-black community in Eatonville , Florida , she lived comfortably due to her father holding high titles, John Hurston was a local Baptist ...
8:17 left: The Grizzlies have jumped out to a quick start and lead the Jazz 13-6.Desmond Bane and Jaren Jackson Jr. each have four points, and Jacob Gilyard knocked down a 3-pointer for his first ...