Prejudice In The Swing Era

The swing era took place from 1935-1945. It took place during a time that the Great Depression was going on. People argue that the time during the Great Depression made a shift from the “hot syncopated dance music to a type of sweeter ballroom dance music. (Star, 2013) In this paper I am going to discuss how the Tin Pan Alley and Swing are similar, how Tin Pan Alley and Swing are different, and lastly why the Swing era lasted so much shorter than the Tin Pan Alley.

The 1920’s through 1940’s were incredibly influential years for America, as this was the first period when everyday people could partake in entertainment and leisure activities. Although these years had great impact on all of entertainment, it was most importantly when the Swing Era of jazz and music was born. The Swing Era impacted America predominantly through its impact on society and the contrary impact it made on Swing, its change of music, and its effect on the people who played it.

One of the most influential styles of jazz to emerge from the early half of the 20th century was known as “swing.” During the dark days of Depression as well as World War II, swing music rapidly spread amongst all racial demographics in the era and producing some of Americas renowned musical figures and leaders. Swing music Is very important to the evolution of popular music in America,

Swing is the jazz from 1935 to 1945 usually known as the swing era. Swing is the feeling created by rhythmic contrast within a rhythmic framework usually involving a walking bass and steady rhythm on the drummer’s ride cymbal. Swing music is the kind of jazz played by Big Bands and characterized by lively rhythms for dancing. This is music associated with Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller band played

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most appreciated and studied novel across the nation because of its rich way of developing themes and characters. Her book, To Kill a Mockingbird, won a pulitzer prize for fiction and several other literary rewards. Although it is a fictional story, she structured her novel with events that occurred in her life and people who lived in her hometown, Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird to portray the ongoing injustice of racial prejudice from her era. Being the youngest of four children, she was born on April 28th of 1926 in Monroeville, a small town of southern Alabama.

Although somewhat ironic, the Swing Era all started with something depressing and negative. The entertainment and the political worlds are correlated to one another. While financial was dropping rapidly for many Americans, they look for something to fill that stress and burden, and that something was music; some might even say this era was a new beginning, especially to the minorities (Schuller 5). Swing music is a branched of Jazz music that became popular after the World War II; however, there isn’t a definite definition for swing music itself. Benny Goodman, an American jazz clarinetist and known as the “King of Swing”,” quoted swing as “something difficult to explain like the Mona’s Lisa smile…

This contemporary style brought an upbeat twist to the regular technique of poetry that we all know and love. Another fascinating contribution of jazz music is swing dancing. In 1935-1945 the era was known as the, “Big Band Era - Swing Era” The word “swing” derives from African American English language

One explanation for swing music’s popularity is that its driving intensity and abandon represented pleasure and freedom in a time when the country was steeped in hard times. The Great Depression caused Americans to suffer, and dancing to swing music was a way for people to forget their worries. Swing music featured a section of three or four trumpeters, three or four trombonist, five saxophonists who often doubled on clarinets, a piano, a bassist instead of a tuba player, a guitarist, and a drummer.

In the 1940s, jazz was becoming more popular, and as swing was getting slowly replaced by jazz music, hep cats morphed into hipsters. Jazz grew and started attracting lots of people especially “lower-class white youth” (Faulkner). They were all in search of something new, and jazz was just that. Even though it was mainly performed by African- Americans and had no

The term “Swing” was originally coined not for the dance, but for the music. Swing music was born during the Great Depression, while many bands had been experimenting during the early Roaring Twenties it was suggested that the “…summer of 1929 began the journey toward the summer of 1935 and the official arrival of the Swing Era” (Hennessey, 123). While the Great Depression was a time of increased poverty and unemployment, the formation of big bands was not impacted, during this time there were many available musicians who were looking to work with new bandleaders (Barnet, 44). While bands were able

To me, jazz gave off a mature aura of life, as if it was a stereotypical kind of thing you would hear in a 1920’s club, people seated around a white-clothed table that was tipped off with a name place.

In some ways, the concept of swing is the Holy Grail of Jazz . It is the foundation of all jazz

his unique melodic-rhythmic style of performance was dubbed “swing”, which now is a standard description of jazz

Since the beginning of time humans unknowingly, have placed themselves in social classes. These social classes account for the many stereotypical type who have been plagued in different groups. It is something many cannot help, but we all have our own thoughts and perceptions. Whether they are rich or poor, a man or a woman holding the many different beliefs of religion, they still are prone to prejudice. Prejudice is a favorable option or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought or reason. Social psychological theories known as Culture Theory and Group Closure, have best accounted for one my prejudice and the factors that helped me to realize and to overcome this prejudice.

Albert Ellis once stated, “Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody because they’re alive and human.” In today’s society, people often shut others out, especially those who are different from themselves, rather than opening up to others. Doing this leads to prejudice against people of different colors, religion, and even gender because they have been taught to shut them out. Not everybody in this world is quick to judge others based on their physical appearance, but those who do have been taught to think that way either by family or even friends. Society can be defined as “ people considered as a group, or a group of people who live together in a particular social system.” In other words, society is a group of people that live on the same earth, breathe the same air, and interact together. The fact that everyone lives on the same earth and breathes the same air displays that everyone should be thoroughly accepting of others in their society. Not only does it show good character, but it’s much easier to get along with people when not judging and shutting them out. In the works To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose, and “ What, of this Goldfish, Would You Wish”by Etgar Keret, the authors give examples of prejudice based on the differences in the characters throughout the stories.