<P> The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity . The Jazz Age 's cultural repercussions were primarily felt in the United States , the birthplace of jazz . Originating in New Orleans as a fusion of African and European music , jazz played a significant part in wider cultural changes in this period , and its influence on pop culture continued long afterwards . The Jazz Age is often referred to in conjunction with the Roaring Twenties . American author F. Scott Fitzgerald is widely credited with coining the term , first using it in the title of his 1922 short story collection , Tales of the Jazz Age . </P>
<P> The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity . The Jazz Age 's cultural repercussions were primarily felt in the United States , the birthplace of jazz . Originating in New Orleans as a fusion of African and European music , jazz played a significant part in wider cultural changes in this period , and its influence on pop culture continued long afterwards . The Jazz Age is often referred to in conjunction with the Roaring Twenties . American author F. Scott Fitzgerald is widely credited with coining the term , first using it in the title of his 1922 short story collection , Tales of the Jazz Age . </P>
when did jazz became popular in the united states
when did jazz became popular in the united states
a period in the 1920s and 1930s
a period in the 1920s and 1930s