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16 Cards in this Set
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premiere Jazz Age composer
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George Gershwin
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Swanee (1920)
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George Gershwin
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Embodiment of the American Dream in the 1930s
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Cole Porter
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Gay Divorce, Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate
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Cole Porter
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Jazz Age
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1920s and 30s
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Prohibition
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ban on alcohol 1920-1933
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Greatest star of musicals in 1920s
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Marilyn Miller
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Overly sentimental singer in blackface
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Al Jolson
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Performers would apply burnt cork and grease paint
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blackface
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First all black jazz musical composed by Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle
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Shuffle Along
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The act of borrowing a cultural asthetic from one group and assuming it to another.
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Cultural Appropriation
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Dance made famous by Running WIld
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The Charleston
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A series of highly successful review shows created by director/producer George White
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Goerge White's Scandals
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rhythm accent off the beat
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syncopation
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term coined to describe the experience of living in the culturally diverse world of New York City at the height of the immigration invation.
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Melting Pot
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The radio gossip columnist who chronicled the worlds of Broadway and New York via the national public radio.
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Walter Winchell
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