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- Title
Who's Afraid of the Jazz Monsters? For many Americans, jazz was the music of demons, devils and things that go bump in the night.
- Authors
Tipton, Carrie Allen
- Abstract
The article reports on the moral panic by some Americans in the 1920s related to the perceived evils associated with jazz music and its associated jazz culture. Newspaper reports associated jazz with undesirable traits including insanity, criminality, drug addiction, as well as the supernatural. Vampires, a pejorative name for liberated women, were also associated with the jazz music scene.
- Subjects
MORAL panics; JAZZ; NINETEEN twenties; MUSIC &; social problems; MUSIC &; society; UNITED States social conditions; 20TH century United States history
- Publication
History Today, 2019, Vol 69, Issue 10, p12
- ISSN
0018-2753
- Publication type
Article