To learn more about jazz and its impact, watch The Devil's Music: 1920s Jazz, the final film in the 4-part Culture Shock series.

Black Americans developed jazz at the turn of the century. The improvised music combined elements of ragtime, blues, spirituals, and band music. By the 1920s, jazz had migrated across the border ...

In the mid-1920s, the situation changed ... And still the influence of Interwar jazz on the history of Polish music remains to this day, with revival bands like Jazz Band Młynarski-Masecki inspired by ...

Jazz music has a rich and evolving history in India, with its roots stretching back to the early 20th century when ...

The Scopes trial was a signature event of the Jazz Age. It had that "ballyhoo" spirit so typical of the 1920s. In one way ... "We now have music by machines, we travel by machines — soon ...

The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in Mississippi in the Delta. The Delta was particularly poverty stricken and the ...

Since the ‘Jazz Age’ of the 1920s ... rock music, and a dual-genre, jazz-rock fusion, was a popular sound originating in the 1960s with musicians such as Miles Davis, Chick Corea, and Herbie Hancock ...

Another reminder — with live musical demonstrations on stage — is coming to Kiggins Theatre. As part of its ongoing History ...