Answer: In the early twentieth century jazz was a regionally based, racially defined dance
music that featured solo and collective improvisation. Originating in New Orleans, jazz
soon spread throughout the country as musicians left the South for better opportunities—
both economic and social—elsewhere in the country. Jazz greatly increased in popularity
during the 1920s. No longer a regional music dominated by African Americans, jazz in
the 1920s helped define a generation torn between the Victorian society of nineteenth
century America and the culture of modernity that was quickly defining the early
twentieth century. Jazz and its eventual popularity represented the cultural tensions
present in modern America, and the acceptance of jazz reflected the degree to which
Americans rejected or accepted traditional values. This dissertation examines the
historical context of this larger transformation America underwent in the 1920s
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