Jazz Influence On The Great Gatsby

The Jazz Age was the period during the 1920’s ( ending with the great depression) when jazz music and dance became popular. The birth of jazz music is often credited to the African americans but expanded and over time was modified to become socially acceptale to middle-class white americans. Jazz music really came into its own and became the definition of music to most people. This music played an important role in peoples lives . The great gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald has many themes, which were all set in the jazz age. Not all people of the jazz age were wealthy and famous, but most of the characters fitzgerald wrote about were. During this time , there was a boom in production and the ammount of money that many people had was beyond belief, we today, know this as the American Dream, which was set
And Flappers- A Flapper was a “new breed” of young western women in the 1920’s who wore skirts, bobbed their r hair , listened to jazz and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were rebellious and more independent. Radios had now started to spread jazz music through the country, making t popular. The jazz age had now been more socially acceptable by the society, and was distinguished as the “Anything goes” era. This time period, people started to relax with trying to save money, and drinking and dancing had become a common past time. People started to rebel against what was known as socially acceptable and push the limits to what was considered normal.
Many americans found new wealth and enjoyed the booming economy. Women bagan smoking and drinking in public, a practice unheard of in previous years. However, with these bold changes in culture came a shift in the morals of the American