Jazz Against Prohibition
Nightlife Race and Urban Freedom
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Beschreibung
The dance floor promised release, yet every doorway still reflected the boundaries of the city outside.
Music spilled from clubs while law tried to regulate drink, leisure, and public behavior. The 1920s made nightlife a battleground over race, gender, migration, morality, and modern urban identity. This book explores the Jazz Age through the spaces where people danced, listened, worked, and crossed social boundaries. It connects musical innovation with Prohibition, segregation, commercial entertainment, and the growth of mass media. Rather than presenting the decade as uninterrupted glamour, it reveals a culture shaped by both new freedoms and persistent constraints.
Autor*in
Jason Sterling
Specializes in military history, intelligence operations, and Cold War geopolitics.
Themen in »Jazz Against Prohibition«
Jazz Age nightlife Prohibition urban culture Harlem Renaissance music race and entertainment history women in the 1920s speakeasy culture history