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.

Exact synonyms: Jive, Swing
Generic synonyms: Jazz
Derivative terms: Jive, Swing, Swingy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swing Music

swineries
swinery
swines
swinesties
swinestone
swinestones
swinesty
swing
swing about
swing around
swing by
swing dog
swing door
swing for the fences
swing loan
swing music (current term)
swing of things
swing out
swing over
swing riot
swing riots
swing shift
swing shifts
swing state
swing states
swing the lead
swing vote
swing voter
swing voters
swing votes

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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