1920 Blues

The 1920s ushered in a wave of new music and art, one particular movement that grew popular was the jazz movement. The jazz movement represented a wave of new Americans that were more free and more outgoing. Women called flappers who represented the new culture were more popular and listened to the "new" music which was jazz, and talked about their sexual lives more freely. This new music called was introduced with a negative connotation as even the word "jazz" was meant to explain fornication and something called a "jazzbow" was a lover of the ladies. Jazz was unaccepted at first but was slowly accepted into the new culture by the likes of performers that have their names burned into history such as Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis. Jazz famously is known to have been originated from african american roots which for the most part is true but there were many white american performers that picked up the "new music" and helped increased its popularity. A very famous performer named Benny Goodman who was nicknamed the king of the swing helped popularize jazz in the white community and played from 1926 through 1986 when he passed away. All in all Jazz helped America jump into a new day and age in the 1920s and introduced a new culture. It also helped the black community by pushing their arts into a new day and age where it was later on more appreciated.