Describe how american writers composers and artists broke away from european traditions in the 1920s

The 1920s in America were the period of the famous Roaring Twenties. Also called the Jazz age, this was the period of jazz, art deco, southern renaissance, surrealism and many more styles and movements but at the same time the American artists moved from the European tradition by becoming more political, commenting on social issues and describing the problems of both low and high social classes.