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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Jazz Age"”.
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Gender Revolution of the Jazz Age: The Source of Disillusionment in the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
The Lost Generation was forced to develop their own principles regarding gender identity in an environment of ever-shifting cultural norms, which called into question all of their predetermined ideas on femininity, masculinity, and the ways in which members of the opposite sex should interact with …
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"Modern Primitive: Parody, Ambivalence, and Paradox in Paul Colin's Le Tumulte Noir"
… celebratory, racist, and colonialist ideas about jazz music, dance, and blackness in Paris during the 1920s. Because the portfolio often demonstrates conflicting tropes for representing people of African American descent, for example minstrelsy vs. New Negro imagery, this thesis uses several …
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Social dancing in the early twentieth century: A case study of Preston, Lancashire
As a part-time jazz musician who has found the history of his home town intriguing for many years in was a natural choice to combine these two interests to produce this paper. For many years the impact of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band on London in 1919 has been acknowledged by music-historians …
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Echoes of Eliot's The waste land in three modern American novels
… of the poem. Fitzgerald's use of waste land imagery is readily perceptible the most effective in defining and summing up the temper of the Jazz Age in America. Hemingway's borrowing lies principally in parallel characterization (Jake Barnes as he Fisher King is the outstanding example) and in …
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The evolution of jazz in Britain c. 1880-1927: antecedents, processes and developments
This thesis examines the way in which jazz evolved in Britain beginning with an examination of the cultural and musical antecedents of the genre, including minstrel shows and black musical theatre, within the context of musical life in Britain in the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries. The …
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Country of Illusion: Imagined Geographies and Transnational Connections in F. Scott Fitzgerald's America
The two decades between World Wars I and II were a remarkably isolationist, xenophobic period in the history of American politics and culture. In the era’s literature, however, some US authors repurposed regional writing as a medium for rethinking conservative nationalism and for imagining their …