Brief History: Music in the twenties, also known as flapper music, was "jazz — or rather, the white, refined version of that improvisational jamming — in elegant (or just plain gaudy) ballrooms or right in their own living rooms." The 1920’s, often referred to as the "Jazz Age" saw the beginning of a distinctive style of music, separate from its roots in ragtime and blues. Ever since the beginning jazz was a music form for a minority. The creative music of blacks was little recognized in the community at large. This new art form, like any other, went through many periods of change and evolution. Dixieland sprang up from the untroubled times before World War I. The ‘roaring twenties’ produced the Chicago style and the nervousness of the fourties produced Bebop. Without realizing it, however, much of the music current artists create came from jazz. Jazz represented a break from Western musical traditions, where the composer wrote a piece of music on paper and the musicians then tried their best to play exactly what was in the score. In a Jazz piece, the song is often just a starting point or frame of reference for the musicians to improvise around. The song might have been a popular ditty or blues that they didn't compose, but by the time they were finished with it they had composed a new piece that often bore little resemblance to the original song. The music of the twenties also known as Jazz or Flapper music, will always stay timeless and remain in the hearts of every American.