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1. Red Hot Jazz JAZZ -noun 1. music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvis...
2. The Roaring 1920's: Fashion, Celebrity, Craziness!!! . . . and the Kings and Queens of Broadway! Everything you ever wanted to know about cool 1920s culture. The famous icons, the beautiful styles, the flashy gangsters, and glittering Gold Diggers of an amazing era in world history. This lens shed...
3. Crooners and Songbirds The Jazz Age! Tin Pan Alley!! The Great White Way!!!   croon    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (krn) v. crooned, croon·ing, croons v. intr. 1.    To hum or sing softly. 2.    To sing popul...
4. Rebellious Flapper Fashion This article examines how fashion and politics were intertwined in the 1920's, and how the flapper was the first in a long line of defiant women trying to change the status quo. This article was originally intended for a history magazine for homesch...
5. SUPERBATONE RECORDS SUPERBATONE CDs shine the coherent light on a wide variety of historic music and entertainment ranging in time from the very dawn of recording to the end of the 78 era (1888 - 1960). SUPERBATONE'S MISSION is to startle listeners with unknown, great m...
6. The Flappers! flap*per n. 1. A broad flexible part, such as a flipper. 2. A young woman, especially one in the 1920s with disdain for conventional dress and behavior. [Sense 2, British Slang, very young female prostitute, flapper, possibly from flapper, fledgling...
7. The Jazz Age The Jazz Age describes the period from 1918-1929, the years between the end of World War I and the start of the Roaring Twenties; ending with the rise of the Great Depression, the traditional values of this age saw great decline while the American st...
8. Nancy Cunard Nancy Clare Cunard (March 10, 1896 - March 17, 1965) was an English writer, editor and publisher, political activist, anarchist and poet. She was born into the British upper class but strongly rejected her family's values, devoting much of her life t...
9. Kiki de Montparnasse Alice Ernestine Prin (October 2, 1901 - April 29, 1953), was a French artists' model, nightclub singer, actress and painter. Her chosen name was simply Kiki, but she was also referred to as Reine de la Montparnasse ("the Queen of Montparnasse") and K...
10. The Roaring Twenties Roaring Twenties is a phrase used to describe the 1920s, which emphasizes the period's social, artistic, and cultural dynamism. 'Normalcy' returned to politics in the wake of World War I, jazz music blossomed, the flapper redefined modern womanhood,...
11. Bing Crosby Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Born on May 3, 1903, was an American popular singer and actor whose career lasted until his death on October 14, 1977. Background information Birth name: Harry Lillis Crosby Born: May 3, 1903(1903-05-03) Tacoma, WA, USA D...
12. Sheet Music from the 1920s One can find a large variety of sheet music for songs that were popular during the 1920s. The decade is referred to as The Roaring Twenties, Jazz Age, Dry Decade and the Flapper Generation. Some chose to listen to the music on a Victrola or Grapha...
13. CONFETTA ARCHIVIST. EDITOR. HISTORIAN. I love exploring the not so distant past. c. 1925 -1935 c. 1966 - 1971 This is where I get to tell you about what I love most of all. I have created lenses that fall into 5 Groups: (see below) I hope you will poke...
14. Ethel Waters Background information: Born October 31, 1896(1896-10-31) Chester, Pennsylvania, USA Died September 1, 1977 (aged 80) Chatsworth, California, USA Genre(s): Jazz Occupation(s): Actress, singer Instrument(s): Vocals Years active: 1925-1977 Associated acts: Be...
15. The American Foursquare House I will never forget the day I told my wife we were going to buy this house and neither will she. It was a mess, my wife deserves a medal. The American Foursquare or "Prairie Box" was a post-Victorian style, which shared many features with the Prairie...
16. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts On File) The multiculturally empowered Harlem Renaissance remains exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of this Century for the same reason that the many people who lived it found it exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of...
17. Josephine Baker An African-American entertainer who became the toast of France and died an honored French citizen.
18. Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys With her sleek bob haircut (usually with a flower or two placed just so), vintage dresses, strikingly beautiful looks, and artfully customized ukulele, Janet Klein might seem at first to be a simple novelty act, a Generation X hipster ironically recr...
19. Jane Green Jane Green (2 January 1897 - 28 August 1931) was a United States singer popular in the 1920s. Green was born in Kentucky as Martha Jane Greene. She appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies and recorded over 30 phonograph records, and appeared in s...
20. Annette Hanshaw Birth name Annette Hanshaw Born October 18, 1901 Origin USA Died March 13, 1985 Genre(s)Jazz Occupation(s) Singer Instrument(s) Vocals Annette Hanshaw was one of the first great female jazz singers. In the late 1920s she ranked alongside Ethel...