As the decades have passed by, time has wiped out all but a few moments and artists from our collective memory, but the output from the beginning of the 20th century was truly pioneering. From country ...

In 1938 Jelly Roll Morton, a major New Orleans jazz pioneer, sat down for a series ... matter that “polite” audiences of the mid-20th century would have considered obscene.

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious ...

This week’s Title Search puzzle highlights 20th-century books that have maintained their evergreen popularity over the decades and are often studied today in literature classes. The titles of 13 ...

But the novel is about America as a whole – particularly the America of the early 20th century. The overarching themes of the novel could be said to be those of the American Dream and the Jazz ...