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title: "Roaring Twenties Jazz Age Crystallizes"
year: 1920
country: "United States"
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startDate: "1920-01-01"
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# Roaring Twenties Jazz Age Crystallizes

> The post-WWI cultural explosion in American cities—jazz, cinema, modernist art—defined a generation and marked the emergence of mass consumer culture.

After World War I ended in 1918, American cities exploded with jazz clubs, illegal speakeasies, and a cultural rebellion against Victorian restraint. The 1920s brought economic boom, women's suffrage, and a generation determined to break with the past—until the stock market crashed in 1929.

## Summary

The Roaring Twenties, sometimes stylized as Roaring '20s, refers to the 1920s decade in music and fashion, as it happened in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and internationally, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, Buenos Aires,, Santiago, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York City, Paris, and Sydney. In France, the decade was known as the années folles, emphasizing the era's social, artistic and cultural dynamism. Jazz blossomed, the flapper redefined the modern look for British and American women, and Art Deco peaked.

## Sources

- [Roaring Twenties](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties) - Wikipedia

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