The twenties

The Roaring twenties, or Jazz age, was a time of great economic prosperity and extravagance in America. Consumerism reigned and an increasing number of people had access to cars and other luxury goods.Advances in recording technology and the rise of the radio brought the music of the day into people's homes.

Jazz enjoyed widespread popularity and its artists became major stars.The rise of Hollywood and Tin pan Alley added to the sense of glamour and excitement, and to the general feeling that America was several pacea ahead of the rest of the world.

The great migration of laboureers from the South to the northern cities, in search of better wages and new beginnings, reached its peak. This further enabled the absorption nof African American music genres into the mainstream, as migrants brought with them the sounds of their homelands.