05.03.08

Hey All You Jazz Cats and Hipsters

Posted in , , at 8:39 pm by Stephanie

The terms “hip” and “hipster” probably came from the jazz age in 1920s Chicago and can be defined as:

a fanatic of jazz, alcohol, and cabarets who defiantly carried a flask hidden in a hip pocket

Source:
William Howland Kenney, Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History 1904-1930, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 152.