Jazz Age - People and Perspectives

A collection of essays encompassing a wide variety of topics, people, and events that embodied the Jazz Age, both familiar and obscure.This volume in ABC-CLIO''s social history series, , looks at one of the most vibrant eras in U.S. history, a decade when American life was utterly transformed, often veering from freewheeling to fearful, from liberated to repressed.What did it mean to live through the Jazz Age? To answer this and other important questions, the volume broadens the spotlight from famous figures to cover everyday citizens whose lives were impacted by the times, including women and children, African Americans, rural Americans, immigrants, artists, and more. Chapters explore a wide range of topics beyond the music that came to symbolize the era, such as marriage, religion, consumerism, art and literature, fashion, the workplace, and more-the full cultural landscape of an extraordinary, if short-lived, moment in the life of a nation.>

About the author

Mitchell Newton-Matza, PhD, is an independent scholar who has contributed to or edited several ABC-CLIO reference works.

Product details

• Authors: Mitchell Newton-Matza, Mitchell (EDT) Newton-matza
• Assisted by: Peter C. Mancall (Editor), Mitchell Newton-Matza (Editor)
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.2009
• EAN: 9781598840339
• ISBN: 978-1-59884-033-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Perspectives in American Socia; Perspectives in American Social History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, American History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)