This is the story of the jazz age and the technological and cultural advancements that took place during the era and the changes in our lives and our language that has carried through to this day.
It all began around 1919, soon after the horrors of the First World War.
But there is no consensus as to when it finished.
F. Scott Fitzgerald puts its end date at the stock market crash of 1929.
But Fitzgerald was writing in 1931.
And despite the economic downturn of the 1930s, the Jazz era was still in full swing.
Jazz was the dominant popular musical form in America, and this carried on into the 1930s and beyond.
And it was during this age that American English finally emerged from the shadows and shared center stage with British English.
And this coincided with the rise of the US as the global economic superpower.
Most of the expressions and vocabulary that originate from the jazz age came from American English.
