<span><span>Known for living, naming, and interpreting the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald absorbed the spirit of his times through its most expressive feature: popular music. He filled his novels and short stories with songs that represented the new styles of the Twentieth Century—ragtime, blues and jazz, show tunes and movie soundtracks—and he organized these songs into literary forms that would both preserve the songs and evaluate their cultural impact.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>