USA HISTORY

LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861

AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ coined the term “Jazz Age” and wrote the Great Gatsby.
A
Zora Neale Hurston
B
F. Scott Fitzgerald
C
Sinclair Lewis
D
George Gershwin
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Scott Fitzgerald is credited with coining the phrase “The Jazz Age ” in the title of his 1922 collection of short stories, Tales of the Jazz Age.

Detailed explanation-2: -The novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald termed the 1920s “the Jazz Age.” With its earthy rhythms, fast beat, and improvisational style, jazz symbolized the decade’s spirit of liberation. At the same time, new dance styles arose, involving spontaneous bodily movements and closer physical contact between partners.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Roaring Twenties were years of rapid economic growth, rising prosperity for many people, and far-reaching social changes for the nation. The period is sometimes called the Jazz Age, because of the new style of music and the pleasure-seeking people who made it popular.

Detailed explanation-4: -Above all, Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby has been hailed as the quintessential portrait of Jazz Age America, inspiring Hollywood adaptations populated by dashing bootleggers and glamorous flappers in short, fringed dresses.

Detailed explanation-5: -In Fitzgerald’s most popular novel, The Great Gatsby, jazz appears as constant background music. In the contemporary phenomenon of “Gatsby parties”-festivities intended to capture the air of the titular Jay Gatsby’s famously lavish, bacchanalian parties-jazz is de rigueur to evoke the 1920s.

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