The Swing

Single swing is one kind of swing dance that developed with the swing style kind of jazz music in the 1920s-1940s. “Swing” refers to a style of jazz music where the emphasis is on the off-beat part in the music and it influenced the evolution of swing dance because the feeling of the dance was “swinging”. It uses a strong rhythm section that results in more wind and brass instruments. Swing bands also featured soloists who improvised during their performance. Sometimes two or three band members even

During the early 20s to late 30s “Swing” dancing and music quickly became popular across America. The swing era was about dancing, without dancing there would have been no swing era. According to the video “Swing Thing” people thought said Swing was labeled as dangerous music white adults thought that it made you have sex with people. Swing has thrown up some of the most iconic stars of the 20th century. With people like Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, and George Gershwin, this music style developed

revolutionary because its skills and like swing, bebop was still a music that prized virtuosity; if anything, its standards were higher. But were seeing by most people as an outsider’s music steeped in drug abuse and tainted with an atmosphere of racial hostility. It was evolutionary because it firmly placed in the center of jazz tradition while acknowledging that its status was altered to that of self-conscious art music. Bebop doesn’t serve the same social function as swing because jazz music became isolated

The Swing by Jean-Honore Fragonard, is an oil on canvas painting (2′8″ x 2′1″) created in 1766. This painting is often brought up when one discusses the Rococo period of art, as it is considered to be one of the most recognized of the period. This painting is the epitome of the Rococo style of art. Rococo was an art period that appeared in the early 1700s, when the reign of Louis XIV came to an end. It’s a combination of the Italian word Barocco, and irregularly shaped pearl; with the French word

In the movie Swing Kids, director Thomas Carter tells the captivating story of two teenagers living in Hamburg, Germany during the period promptly before World War II. Peter and Thomas are Hitler Youth by day and Swing Kids by night. Unfortunately, as time goes by the boys find it difficult to maintain this double lifestyle. As they are sucked deeper and deeper into the Hitler Youth Movement, Thomas becomes committed to the Nazis while Peter takes a stand as a resistor of the Movement. Peter would

Baby Bouncer, Rocker, or Swing- Which One to Choose? The origin of baby bouncers, dating back to the 15th century, present nurturing babies a secure, playful, and a soothing environment to develop physically and mentally. Many parents worldwide think bouncers significant for first six months of babyhood. Today, there are many brands, manufacturing this baby product. They are crafted elegantly with strokes of complementary appeal. Also, compact enough to fit any tight space, so parents can tag it

Swing can be traced back to a style called Dixieland jazz which was created by African American musicians in the later 1920’s in New Orleans. It became the most popular and a successful kind of music during the 1930’s, being played by band leaders such as Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Bennie Moten, Cab Calloway and Fletcher Henderson. The instruments found in a swing band are very similar to the instruments found in a jazz band. Both contain a brass section that have trumpet and trombone, a

The swing bands showed a highly organized approach to performing Jazz. Fletcher Henderson’s band started the evolution that established the legacy for big bands to follow, both white and black. Henderson’s band merge into the sections we now call big bands, the contrapuntal lines necessarily became more formalized and thereby less improvised. “The first signs of sectional activity appeared in the clarinet trios that is heard in Jelly Morton’s arrangements.” There are four sections including, the

Swing Music Paper by Daleina Chavez ¨For me it's that sense of Swing that drove the big band era. Its dance music...that makes people smile and have a good time.¨ (Aaron Weinstein). Swing did leave a large and impactful markon the world of music and as Weinstein said it made people have a good time and smile when they felt like they couldn't smile anymore. Also, if Swing managed to impact an entire genre of influential Jazz music then it must have had been an influential period in music with its

Resurrection of Swing The recent increase in attention to Swing dancing has brought along a sense of nostalgia with it. This pleasant dance movement is largely fueled in part by the images of what would be today’s youth grandparents’ time, which have been passed down. The reality of Swing though was that the true Swing Era of 1935 to 1945 occurred during a time unrest, and was filled with racial tension, war, poverty, adolescent unrest, and gender discrimination. In fact, the era of Swing encompasses