The Old Shelter

Zest (AtoZ Challenge 2016 – Jazz Age Jazz) Jazz was destroied and created at the same time. It divided even if it was about collaboration. It was the more precise definition of the Jazz Age.

XX Century (AtoZ Challenge 2016 – Jazz Age Jazz) Jazz was often credited as expressing a break with the past and the introduction of a new time and speed as the XX century started

White Audience (AtoZ Challenge 2016 – Jazz Age Jazz) The history of jazz in the 1920s ran on two separate tracks: black jazz on the one hand, white jazz on the other, and really very seldom they crossed paths.

Vaudeville (AtoZ Challenge 2016 – Jazz Age Jazz) Many jazzmen and blueswomen first found their popularity in the vaudeville and minstrels show circuit. In the 1920s jazz never emancipated fromthis stigma.

Union (AtoZ Challenge 2016 – Jazz Age Jazz) As many other form of unionised work, the musician union was born in the 1920s. Rather than a nationwide organisation, every city had their own, with its own characteristics.

Tempo (AtoZ Challenge 2016 – Jazz Age Jazz) Jazz was the new tempo of 1920s youth. This young people had known war and wanted to break with the past. Jazz was the rhythm of this new life.

Sensuality (AtoZ Challenge 2016 – Jazz Age Jazz) The blueswoman gathered in herself most of the controversial issues of the time. She was a modern kind of woman who knew how to use her sensuality wisely

Race Records (AtoZ Challenge 2016 – Jazz Age Jazz) Throughout their existence, Race Records sold practically only to African Americans and based their appeal on authenticity to a variety of qualities including musical characteristics

PRIMITIVISM (Jazz Age Jazz – AtoZ Challenge 2016) Primitivism argued that emotional repression was endemic in the Western world and ‘primitive’ cultures with ‘uncivilized values’ could cure this illness