of fashion. In the early part of the decade, change was slow, as many were reluctant to adopt new styles. From 1925, the public passionately embraced the styles associated with the Roaring Twenties. These styles continued to characterize fashion until the worldwide depression worsened in 1931. Music "The Jazz Age"—jazz and jazz-influenced dance music became widely popular throughout the decade. George Gershwin wrote Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris. Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti were the first musicians to incorporate the guitar and violin into jazz. Radio First commercial radio stations in the U.S., 8MK (WWJ) in Detroit and (KDKA 1020 AM) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, go on the air on August 27, 1920. Both stations broadcast the election results between Harding and Cox in early November. The first station to receive a commercial license is WBZ, then in Springfield MA, in mid-September 1921. While there are only a few radio stations in 1920–21, by 1922 the radio craze is sweeping the country. 1922: The BBC begins radio broadcasting in the United Kingdom as the British Broadcasting Company, a consortium between radio manufacturers and newspapers. It became a public broadcaster in 1926. On August 27, 1920, regular wireless broadcasts for entertainment began in Argentina for the first time, by a Buenos Aires group including Enrique Telémaco Susini. The station is soon called Radio Argentina. (See Radio in Argentina.) Arts Beginning of surrealist movement. Art Deco becomes fashionable. The Group of Seven (artists). Pablo Picasso paints Three Musicians in 1921. René Magritte paints The Treachery of Images. Albert Gleizes paints Woman with Black Glove, 1920 Marcel Duchamp completes The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass). The Museum of Modern Art opens in Manhattan, November 7, 1929, nine days after the Wall Street Crash. The first science fiction comic strip, Buck Rogers, begins January 7, 1929. The first Tarzan comic strip begins on the same date. Literature The best-selling books of every year in the United States were as follows: 1920: The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey 1921: Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 1922: If Winter Comes by A. S. M. Hutchinson 1923: Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton 1924: So Big by Edna Ferber 1925: Soundings by A. Hamilton Gibbs 1926: The Private Life of Helen of Troy by John Erskine 1927: Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis 1928: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by