The jazz age / Shaw, Arnold

An account of the jazz age and the significant musical innovations and personalities that emerged from it. Includes a bibliography and discography.

Recounts the history of the jazz era focusing on the musical innovations that evolved during 1920s including blues, jazz, stride piano, torch ballads, and Americanized musicals. Features anecdotes and inside stories set against the culture of Prohibition, the flapper, and the gangster.