The Roaring Twenties!
Did the 1920s really roar?
 

MUSICIANS

Musicians | Writers | Leaders | Adventurers & Entertainers | Artists | Inventors & Business People | Sport Stars

 

Cab Calloway

 

Gershwin Brothers with Fred Astaire
Ira and George Gershwin
with Fred Astaire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duke Ellington

America's Library

African American Odyssey, Library of Congress

PBSkids Jazz

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Kennedy Center: ArtsEdge

 

Billie Holliday

PBSKids Jazz

America's Library

 

Ella Fitzgerald

America's Library

 

Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland Collection, Library of Congress

Timeline from Aaron Copland Collection, Library of Congress

Listen to Copland's Music

 

Cab Calloway

Kennedy Center: Arts Edge

 

Louis Armstrong

Photos from the William Gottlieb Collection

PBSKids Jazz

Biography

Listen to Armstrong's Music

 

Ira and George Gershwin

Official Gershwin Web site

Photos from the Library of Congress

 

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Patty Tuttle-Newby © 2005
This LibraryQuest is part of a collection of K-12 primary source-based lessons created by
the Teaching with Primary Sources Northern Virginia Partnership.