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Definition of Swing music
1. Noun. A style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swing Music
Literary usage of Swing music
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. He Usually Lived with a Female: The Life of a California Newspaperman by George Garrigues (2006)
"This was the summer their conversation turned to swing music and jazz. July 16,
1948 Honestly, I think I should take -- or should have taken -- a course in ..."
2. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General by M. Joycelyn Elders (1997)
"... popular with youth, such as the Camel Pleasure Hour, The All Star Radio Revue,
and the enduring Camel Caravan, which featured the swing music of Benny ..."
3. Nonfiction Reading Practice, Grade 6 by Ellen Linnihan (2003)
"swing music Swing or big band style music became the rage by the 1930s. People danced
to the big band sound led by Count Basic, Benny Goodman, ..."
4. Jazz on Film and Video in the Library of Congress by Rebecca D. Clear (1994)
"His solos, in the "Texas school" he pioneered with Arnett Cobb, Herschel Evans
and Buddy Tate, present an unreconstructed form of swing music popular in the ..."
5. He Usually Lived with a Female: The Life of a California Newspaperman by George Garrigues (2006)
"This was the summer their conversation turned to swing music and jazz. July 16,
1948 Honestly, I think I should take -- or should have taken -- a course in ..."
6. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General by M. Joycelyn Elders (1997)
"... popular with youth, such as the Camel Pleasure Hour, The All Star Radio Revue,
and the enduring Camel Caravan, which featured the swing music of Benny ..."
7. Nonfiction Reading Practice, Grade 6 by Ellen Linnihan (2003)
"swing music Swing or big band style music became the rage by the 1930s. People danced
to the big band sound led by Count Basic, Benny Goodman, ..."
8. Jazz on Film and Video in the Library of Congress by Rebecca D. Clear (1994)
"His solos, in the "Texas school" he pioneered with Arnett Cobb, Herschel Evans
and Buddy Tate, present an unreconstructed form of swing music popular in the ..."
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