the jazz age

It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire. [..] This was the generation whose girls dramatized themselves as flappers, the generation that corrupted its elders and eventually overreached itself less through lack or morals than through lack of taste. [..] The word jazz in its progress toward respectability has meant first sex, then dancing, then music.

/F. Scott Fitzgerald, The jazz age