Jazz news: Jazz Age Films 1920's-Wall-E. Posted in “TV / Film” column. Published: July 31, 2008 ... The Cotton Club (1984) -- 1920s black tap dancer (Gregory Hines) and white cornetist (Richard Gere) ...

Jazz's popularity grows, and as it attracts a wider audience, so do campaigns to censor this "devil's music." Early detractors like Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, ridicule jazz, saying ...

This type of ban, however, was not all that uncommon in many American towns and cities in the 1920s. ... Regulations typically required dance halls to obtain licenses and be subject to inspections.

It wasn’t only dancing that caused anxiety in the 1920s. On July 10, 1921, the Burlington Hawk-eye published a full-page story headlined “Petting Parties, Popular Pastime.” ...

An ad for the steamer Sidney from August of 1920. There was plenty of competition among entertainment venues in New Orleans in 1919. There were vaudeville shows, moving pictures and concerts large ...

To connect with the Lindy Hop, a form of swing dance born in Harlem in the 1920s, you can look beyond the Lindy Hop. At least that’s the premise of “The Jazz Continuum,” running at the ...

The Jazz Age was the period in the 1920s in which jazz music and dance became popular. It also had its own distinct look. Dennis Nothdruft is curator of 1920s Jazz Age Fashion and Photographs, an ...