Around the 1890s in New Orleans a diverse mixture of musical styles including ragtime, blues, gospel music, and "plantation songs", merged to form what we know as Jazz. Probably the key characteristic of Jazz is the improvisation involved when performing this style of music.
Jazz is still considered to be one of the most important (and truly indigenous to America) forms of music, or even art, which affected music globally. A piece of real American culture of which to be proud of.. and a great example/symbol of unity between various cultures and diversity.
Jazz was considered immoral by older generations yet started to spread quickly especially in the 1920's and 30's during the Prohibition Alcohol ban which ultimately encouraged the consumption of alcohol along with wild parties, dancing, illicit "speakeasies" and "improper" music... a time when being bad was a good thing and consequently when one of the most influential styles of music had emerged.
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