By the end of the 1920s, at least 60 communities across the nation enact laws prohibiting jazz in public dance halls. The introduction of Prohibition in 1920 brings jazz into gangster-run ...
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Another reminder — with live musical demonstrations on stage — is coming to Kiggins Theatre. As part of its ongoing History on Tap collaboration with the Clark County Historical Museum, Kiggins will ...
The chapter “Our Mainstream Jazz” describes how, by 1970, jazz gained a modernist, formalized sensibility after the influence ...