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Playlist: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

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the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy (Series)

Produced by Guy Rathbun

Most recent piece in this series:

Material Influence

From Guy Rathbun | Part of the the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy series | 59:00

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The 1920s, witnessed an array of new and exciting products. And something else was new to consumers: buying on credit. Put down a few dollars, and walk out with a brand new, ornate, and beautifully crafted phonograph. Take six months or a year, and pay it off.

It was ever so easy to buy new items like an ice box, a car or even a wooden bathing suit. Wait! What? Patented in 1929,They were shaped like slim, slightly bulbous, barrels that were supposed to make swimming a lot easier. They didn’t.
But while all of this was happening in the material world, the etherial field of music had it’s own creative inventions.