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Jazz overwhelmed the music industry during the desolate 1920's. Its fresh new cacophonies represented the devastation many undertook during the ravenous industrial age.
F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the term "Jazz Age" retrospectively to refer to the decade after World War I and before the stock market crash in 1929. The "Jazz Age" represents a time period where Americans embarked on the most tastelessly showy period in history, in reference to the rich white folk. Though, taking credit for the term, Jazz music was prominently produced by African Americans in an expression of their feelings. A great theme of the age was individualism and a greater emphasis on the pursuit of pleasure and enjoyment in the wake of the misery, destruction and perceived hypocrisy and waste of WWI and pre-war values. The main reference to the "Jazz Age" in chapter 3, is the description of instruments and their sounds played by the orchestra at Gatsby's party. The instruments mentioned include; "oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums."(44) and also noted, "the banjo or the traps"(51) and lastly a "piano"(55). These instruments are not solely "Jazz Age" instruments, but they are what jazz instruments evolved from. = =



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