Zest (Jazz Age Jazz Series) Jazz was destroied and created at the same time. It divided even if it was about collaboration. It was the more precise definition of the Jazz Age #jazz #history Click To Tweet

In psychology, zest and vitality are a combination of the physical sense and the psychological sense of feeling well. Zest is about exhibiting enthusiasm and feeling energised.
In the 1920s, this was what jazz was all about.

It broke the rules to become a new way of making music. It brought about new ways of performing by offering a new and different rendition every time musicians performed, depending on the people’s mood and reactions. It was resilient to be written down. It suffered from recording.

Jazz expressed the exhilaration for a new life, new values, new possibilities and also the unpredictability of the outcome.
It expressed a need for freedom and the opportunity to come together and make something new, even when detractors thought this only created noise without harmony.
It expressed the break from the past. Not the rejection of it, but the breaking away in search of new paths and new possibilities.

It was music that seemed to destroy and create at the same time. That created divisions, even if it was all about collaboration. Music that was deemed devilish and deviant even when encouraging free expression.

For so many reasons, jazz was indeed the more precise definition of the Jazz Age.

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RESORCES

Ogren, Kathy J., The Jazz Revolution. Twenties America and the Meaning of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York, 1989

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