>I think this perfectly accounts for the '20s being
called the "Jazz Age."
As I said, it was popular
>enough that it had crossed over and was listened to
by many, especially
sophisticates in the cities,
>but was still very tied in the minds of many to
illegal drinking and the
mob-owned speakeasies in
>which it was often played. Which made it the perfect
tag for the decadence
of a decade also
>called the Roaring Twenties.
Ah. I think I read your original post as having said that it
was in the process of crossing over in the 30s and 40s, which
(to my mind) would have meant that, even at that point, it
wasn't enough of a force to be criticized. Which, as you
point out, is simply not the case.
Not surprisingly, I always associate jazz with THE GREAT
GATSBY, which was inspired in part by Legs Diamond, the great
bootlegger and subject of one of William Kennedy's Albany
Trilogy books.
Vicky
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