The period after World War I was a flowering of the arts when it came to illustration, music, and dance performance," said ...

In 2020, I published A Map of Jazz: Crossroads of Music and Human Rights (WS Publishing), a book that looks at the culture of jazz on a timeline with cultures of the world. At more than 500 pages, the ...

Musical conductor Thomas Wilson describes the music of the Prohibition era as the “sound of resistance.” The 1920s speakeasy movement brought about the birth of jazz, Wilson said, creating the ...

By DON STEWART For the Valley Advocate A century ago, when women could be arrested for smoking in public and the ...

The Jazz Age was a time of excess, creativity, and passion that lunged jazz music into the mainstream. It produced music icons like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, whose innovative sounds advanced ...

“Jazz Age Illustration” acknowledges both the music and the high spirits. But its concerns, as the show’s title indicates, ...

His giant footprint in pop music and pop culture often overshadows the fact that he was an incredibly gifted singer who came of age in the era of the great song stylists of the jazz era and brought ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. How did an Iowa boy named in part after Germany’s “Iron Chancellor” become one of jazz’s most influential ...

The Delaware Art Museum returns visitors to the 1920s during “Jazz Age Illustration,” the first major exhibition to survey the art of popular illustration in the United States between 1919 and 1942.

I have a friend. I will not say his name. But he is to me what Charles Swann was to Marcel, the main character in Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. My friend, who is a man about town, will often, ...

The Norman Rockwell Museum presents "Jazz Age Illustration," with over 150 pieces depicting American culture from 1919 to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GOVERNORS ISLAND, N.Y. (PIX11) — Put on your ...