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The Jazz Age: In the 1920s, as materialism became the normal mindset, a large number of people began to see how flawed the belief was. Disappointed progressives turned to several different movements. Oftentimes, these people became motivated by pleasures of the present and immediate self-expression. This group consisted of men and women, most of them young. They protested the existing way of life by openly revealing impatience with strict standards of conduct. A major symbol that represented the battle they were fighting was jazz. Particularly popular among African Americans, jazz was a style of music marked by sensuality, spontaneity, and the dancing that it almost always came with. Louis Daniel Armstrong is famous even today for his music and his cultural accomplishments.