Jazz culture

international event for the promotion of jazz music

American period in the 1920s and 1930s

man's suit style of the 1940s

The Swing Youth () were a youth counterculture of jazz and swing lovers in Germany formed in Hamburg in 1939. Primarily active in Hamburg and Berlin, they were composed of 14- to 21-year-old Germans, mostly middle or upper-class students, but also including some in the working class. They admired the "American way of life", defining themselves in swing music and opposing Nazism, especially the Hitler Youth (). They loosely structured themselves into “clubs” with names such as the Harlem Club, the OK Gang, and the Hot Club. This underground subculture, distinctly nonconformist with a focus on A

funeral tradition with music which developed in New Orleans, Louisiana

American 1940s subculture

african-American carnival organizations in New Orleans

term expressing adulation for Jazz musicians

annual festival