By the end of the 1920s, at least 60 communities across the nation enact laws prohibiting jazz in public dance halls. The introduction of Prohibition in 1920 brings jazz into gangster-run ...

In the 1920s, many Americans were listening to Jazz and learning the Charleston. Henry Ford preferred the country dances he learned as a boy - quadrilles, gavottes, the schottische, the polka and ...

and later became the first dance to be codified as a ballroom dance in the 1920s. Additional staccato movements were added in the 1950s to produce the Ballroom Tango as danced today. The hold is ...