The beauty and splendor of Gatsby's parties masks the decay and corruption that lay at the heart of the Roaring Twenties. The society of the Jazz Age, as observed by Fitzgera...
James Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico. He was raised by his gran...
Francis Poulenc was born in Paris, France on January 7, 1899 into a welltodo family. His father, Emile Poulenc, was one of the directors of the pharmaceutical firm Rhone-...
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, is a one of the best stories written during a chaotic period in our nation's history, The Jazz Age. The Twenties were a time of...
Picture being in a jazz club, sitting in the soft cushion booths, waiting for the band to come to the stage. Finally the spotlight shines on the art...
The Roaring Twenties
During the 1920s, tension arose between a new generation, with liberal and progressive ideas, and a more traditional peer group, who favored conve...
"Wedding Band" by Alice Childress is a story of a love/hate interracial relationship between two lovers in the south. The play is set in South Carolina in 1918. "Wedding Ban...
During the 1920s, tension arose between a new generation, with liberal and progressive ideas, and a more traditional peer group, who favored conventional values and sentimenta...
In 1925, The Great Gatsby was published and hailed as an artistic and material success for its young author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is considered a vastly more mature and art...
Sound-On-Disc: From Inception til Death
From the Kinetophone to the Vitaphone, the sound-on-disc format dominated the pioneering stage of sound in movies. For the first tim...