the Jazz Age
/ðə ˈdʒæz eɪdʒ/
/ðə ˈdʒæz eɪdʒ/
- a name for the 1920s, when jazz music was especially popular. The name came from the book Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) by F Scott Fitzgerald, who was called 'the spokesman of the Jazz Age'. see also roaring twenties