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	Swing Revival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Swing Revival was cultural phenomenon of the 1990s and early 2000s which featured renewed popular interest in music in the style of the swing period of the 1930s and 1940s.
		Jump blues utilized the large horn sections of the earlier jazz-oriented swing bands while incorporating the feel and musical structure of the blues, which was fast becoming a sophisticated urban phenonemon in the years immediately ahead of rockabilly and rock and roll.
		Exponents of the so-called "Swing Revival", noteably Brian Setzer, often have extensive backgrounds in the early rock and roll that was spawned, in part, by jump blues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swing_Revival (760 words)

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		Although Swing music does have a very happy and light mood to it, this is not to say that it is devoid of the heavy social, political and economic dynamics of the time.
		Swing would usher in a new era in race relations, "one in which culture and race could be imagined as distinct and separate" (Stowe, 245).
		The reason Swing is so attractive to the youth is likely because of the joyous alternative it offers "to a generation that came of age during the AIDS crisis" (Pfeffer) and one which has been told that it will not amount to anything by the older generations (Howe and Strauss, 321).
	www.anyswinggoes.com /features/108736033039853.shtml (4794 words)

	Arthur Murray Ballroom Dance Studios: Dance Lessons, Coquitlam, BC; American Style East Coast Swing - Learn to Swing ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Swing music is normally written in 2/4 or 4/4 time with the musical accents occurring on the even beats of a measure.
		Swing includes two general rhythms: a 6-count Swing Rhythm - 1, 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6 or an 8-count rhythm - 1, 2, 3 and 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
		Swing is ultimately a great way to let your personality show since it is so varied and you can choose your favorite version or adapt your Swing dancing to many styles of music that are being played.
	www.dancecoquitlam.ca /pag_cms_id_51_p_swing-east-coast-swing.html (1732 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Style Live: Music & Nightlife
		While traditional swing, supported by both original fans of the music and later generations attracted to social dancing, has survived in small pockets around the country, what's really being revived is the aggressive, riff-rooted jump blues popularized in the late '40s and '50s by Cab Calloway, Louis Jordan, Louis Prima, Wynonie Harris and Roy Brown.
		A good number of swing's new practitioners are reformed punks and rockabilly cats who have brought the driving energy – and occasionally, the dark lyricism – of punk to swing.
		Vale suggests in his book that the swing revival is both "a rejection of corporately-dictated consumption and an embrace of forgotten and/or ignored aspects of the American experience." It's a reflection of a desire for change built on elements popular in the past, including music, dance, clothing and traditional values.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/music/features/swing1026.htm (2038 words)

	JAM Magazine: February/March 1999 Issue: Swing! It's Back!
		And he developed a taste for swing that led to the discoveries of the historic giants of jazz.
		When the swing revival was getting underway on both coasts in the early-to-mid-1990s, Dave and guitarist Rod Fleeman noticed this emergence and thought it might be right to bring it to Kansas City.
		And now here is the swing revival, or craze, or whatever we want to call it, of the 1990s.
	www.jazzkc.org /issues/1999-02/swing.html (1880 words)

	Tales of a Gen X Swinger - the revival, and popularity, of swing music Reason - Find Articles
		In this way, the swing revival of the '90s--like the roughly simultaneous revivals of rockabilly, traditional country-western, and martini-flavored lounge musicemerged from the world of punk.
		Today, of course, the swing revival (which actually owes more to jump blues, a '40s genre that emerged in part from swing) includes thousands of people with no interest at all in punk rock or the punk subculture.
		In the original swing age, Judge notes, such places were common; in particular, they dominated the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C., a once-thriving fl district that was gradually eviscerated (and is now, though Judge doesn't mention it, enjoying something of a comeback).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1568/is_3_33/ai_76447020 (820 words)

	Renaissance Music
		The decade from 1935-1945 was nicknamed the "swing era" due to the popularity of a new type of jazz - a powerful style performed by big bands rather than the more intimate qualities of the New Orleans style.
		That was until now with the revival of the swing band and swing dancing.
		Following quickly on the heels of the hybrid ska and cross-over groups, swing is back with a vengeance as epitomized (and further influenced) by the summer's Gap Khakis spots depicting decidedly happy teens in the movement and passion of a swing dance.
	www.renaissancemag.com /arts/music/m1198.html (1038 words)

	Brown University's Swing Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		That said, most of the popular swing garb of today is a variation of 40's vintage clothing and suits, and for those who have a cushy wallet, the zoot suits of 20's Harlem.
		Swing, as it became known, was the commercialized and watered down version of jazz.
		Others were disappointed at the lack of improvisation in swing; one of the fundamentals of jazz is it's lack of written and set notation, which was a stylistic and practical impossibility for large touring swing bands.
	www.brown.edu /Students/Swing_Club/swing.html (2250 words)

	© GottaSwing.com
		The Lindy Hop, purportedly named after Charles Lindbergh's solo trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, signifies the entire historical period known as the Swing Era, and was the staple dance at the Savoy until it closed its doors in 1958.
		Since the swing dance revival of the 1980s, Frank Manning has been a driving force worldwide with his teaching, choreography and performance.
		His own love of swing music and dancing has been as contagious as his dazzling smile.
	gottaswing.com /stompin_page01.html (315 words)

	Swing Dance Instructional Videos
		Swing is the thing, so join in the craze with popular New York instructor Dan Weltner.
		Learn 32 Swing dance steps in the comfort of your own home, when it is most convenient at a fraction of the cost of studio lessons.
		It is now a common sight at dance clubs across the country to see hep cats in their fl and white spectator shoes and zoot suits out on the dance floor swirling and twirling their bobby-socked dance partners.
	securesearch.org /swing_dance/index.html (1103 words)

	The Causal Model:
		The aim of this study is to gain a better understanding of the people behind the swing revival.
		Like most underground movements, the revival started out just a few enthusiasts grouping together to learn more about this dance which was danced to big band music and jump blues music in the 1930s and 40s.
		It makes sense theoretically as swing dancers have to be of a certain age to go to clubs and attend camps, and usually those slightly old will have had more time to master the skills sufficiently to attend the camps.
	selenasol.com /hsien/Survey/swing_survey_analysis.html (2805 words)

	Western Swing Revival Downloads - Download Western Swing Revival Music - Download Western Swing Revival MP3s
		Musically, Western Swing Revival differs little from Western swing itself -- it is still the same joyous, eclectic mix of big-band jazz, country songs, and pop melodies that made the genre one of the most popular music styles in the '40s.
		In reviving the freewheeling, eclectic sensibility of Western swing godfather Bob Wills, the Wheel earned enthusiastic critical praise throughout their lengthy career; they not only preserved classic sounds that had all but...
		In reviving the freewheeling, eclectic sensibility of Western swing godfather Bob Wills, the Wheel earned enthusiastic critical praise throughout their lengthy career; they not only preserved classic sounds that had all but disappeared from country music, but were also able to update the music, keeping it a living, breathing art form.
	www.mp3.com /western-swing-revival/genre/216/subgenre.html (1709 words)

	Swing
		The swing scene, originally created in Harlem in the late 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s, plunged into obscurity during the free solo dancing 60’s and disco 70’s.
		One of the most notable aspects of early swing, like many of the other aspects of the Harlem Renaissance, was it’s ability to attract whites from downtown to come up to Harlem to both watch, appreciate, and learn from fl culture.
		With the revival of swing in the last ten years has come a group of neo-swing bands producing new songs, mostly in a jump blues, simplified swing style, with smaller bands then the old swingsters.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /citizen/pre-apr/SWING.HTM (1092 words)

	Swing (genre) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rather, it is a hybrid concept of time/pulse and rhythm: the result of the miscegenation between West African triple meter and multiple rhythmic layering with Western European duple meter and singular rhythm.
		When the ban was over in January 1949, swing had evolved into several divergent genres of art and popular music, including jump blues, rhythm and blues, bebop, rock and roll, country and western, and funk.
		In the 1990s there was a short-lived Swing Revival movement, lead by bands such as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Cherry Popping Daddies, Royal Crown Revue, and Brian Setzer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swing_music (1384 words)

	Swing Virginia - Contact Us
		He is a part of the swing dance community as promoter, instructor, DJ, performer, and student.
		She has a passion for the "swing era" of the 1940's - a love of the music, the vintage styles, and the powerful and innovative style of Lindy Hop.
		On the peninsula, he spends most of his swing time running a dance for William and Mary Grad students in the 'burg, though he makes an occasional appearance southside.
	www.swingvirginia.com /contact.html (461 words)

	Review - Swing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In case you hadn’t heard, Swing music and dance of the 1930’s and 40’s are enjoying an unprecedented revival on both the East and West Coasts, with an especially strong movement in the San Francisco Bay Area.
		The older artists and afficionados express fleeting nostalgia for the good old days when the Swing revival was a small underground movement and there was still room to really dance on the clubs’dance floors.
		But most of the people interviewed agree that the triumphant return of Swing Music, Dance and Style was inevitable given the sheer joy of the music and the becoming clothes that, at least for the evening, allow men to be men and women to be women again.
	www.peers.org /revswing.html (439 words)

	Does Neo-Swing Got That Swing?
		The article made some good points but could leave the impression that the resurgence of swing dancing is a phenomena fueled and represented by neo-swing bands populated by white dropouts from punk rock.
		Ratliff also argues that "the first swing era was racially and sexually radical", suggesting that in some way the new revival of swing is somehow devoid of a shift in social mores.
		But, there are other factors in the revival of swing dancing: all forms of social partner dancing are thriving including ballroom and Latin dancing.
	swingout-ny.com /asratart.htm (1494 words)

	Swing & Jive
		Archives of Early Lindy Hop - the story of the origins of swing dance at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem in the thirties and forties.
		Any Swing Goes - news and information on the revival of swing, big band, and jump blues music, culture and dancing.
		Swing and Sway Dancing - in Rockland; at 143 Maverick Street; US National Rising Star Ballroom Champs, Christian and Kathryn Clayton, are teaching group and private lessons in their spacious, trendy Rockland studio, and also in Westbrook; phone 207-594-0940
	www.partyguideonline.com /cultures/dance/swing.html (360 words)

	Swing Week Revival 2005! - a camp for musicians
		Johnny, the Grammy-winning legend, is the man behind Swing Week and he was present everywhere during the week, from greeting newcomers at registration, playing fiddle under the trees with an impromptu group of students to conducting workshops by day and giving evening performances each night.A trio joyfully sings for the other Western Swing campers.
		Swing Week is truly a family affair, in that not only is Johnny intimately involved in the school, but so is his wife, Barbara, as well as his daughter Cyndy and son Dick.
		It's obvious Swing Week is a labor of love on the part of everyone involved, faculty and students.
	www.johnnygimble.com /rooster.html (1247 words)

	Online NewsHour: Back In The Swing December 2, 1998
		Swing has sprung, and it isn't just the seniors who are swinging.
		SPENCER MICHELS: Today's swing music is nearly the fl magic that got people swinging back before World War II, when Count Bassie and Duke Ellington and later Bennie Goodman and Glenn Miller used a new sound to energize the crowds.
		SPENCER MICHELS: Today's swing scene involves more than just learning the steps, it includes a return to the hairstyles of the 40's, a landscape Betty Grable or Veronica Lake, and it features clothes from that same era.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec98/swing_12-2.html (1304 words)

	The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra
		The Swing Orchestra, formed in 1993, was an outgrowth of Elliott's continuing success in writing original, vintage-sounding swing music for film, television, and commercials.
		Playing a dominant role in southern California's current swing revival, Elliott's band is a favorite among the young jitterbug and Lindy Hop dancers whose vibrant new counterculture has been growing rapidly.
		Elliott's music is in the style of the great swing bands of the late '30s and early '40s - as hard-swinging as they come, with an emphasis on colorful arrangements, sophisticated and light-hearted lyrics, and danceability.
	swingorchestra.com /band.html (678 words)

	Rockabilly Revival Downloads - Download Rockabilly Revival Music - Download Rockabilly Revival MP3s
		The rockabilly revival continued to thrive into the '90s, when the most notable rockabilly band to emerge was the grunge-injected Reverend Horton Heat.
		A veteran of bands like the Tuff Darts, he suddenly found himself leading a revival of rockabilly music at the end of the 1970s, and was the focus of attention of the world's rock press.
		The rockabilly revival proved to be only a cult phenomenon, loosely associated with the garage punk underground movement and the oldies circuit (which Gordon abhorred), but never more than that.
	www.mp3.com /genre/424/subgenre.html (4346 words)

	The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra
		The Swing Orchestra, formed in 1993, was an outgrowth of Elliott's success in writing original, vintage-sounding swing music for film, television and commercials.
		Playing a dominant role in Southern California's current swing revival, Elliott's band is a favorite among young dancers who jitterbug and Lindy Hop with the same skill and abandon as the kids of fifty years ago.
		SWING TIME MAGAZINE says of their second CD, CALLING ALL JITTERBUGS!: "Five more martinis (their highest rating) are on the way".
	www.swingorchestra.com /band.htm (436 words)

	Big Bad Swing Revival
		In short, a revival of Swing music has been on the move for the past few years.
		Melding traditional Swing and Big Band with a nineties intensity, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy show they are not rehashing what has been done; they are using their surprising talent to create something familiar, yet fresh.
		That is the first time in fifty years that a swing band has been in the top hundred on Billboard.
	www.umich.edu /~mrev/archives/1998/4-1-98/pg14.htm (1909 words)

	Augusta Georgia: features@ugusta: Back in the Swing 10/28/98
		The swing revival keeps rolling along, fueled by cadres of New Swing Kids riffling through their grandparents' closets and searching out local thrift shops for vintage threads to wear when they go jitterbugging to bands with such jive monikers as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the Squirrel Nut Zippers, Royal Crown Revue and Dem Brooklyn Bums.
		Royal Crown Revue, self-styled purveyors of ``hard-boiled swing,'' were the first retrofitted swing band when it started playing at San Francisco's art-deco nightclub the Deluxe in 1989.
		Another movie, however, set the table for the current craze: 1996's ``Swingers,'' whose writer and star, John Favreau, was inspired by the swing revivalism he encountered at Hollywood's Derby Club.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/102898/fea_swing2.shtml (639 words)

	Amazon.com: Swing Shift: Music: The Count Basie Orchestra & Grover Mitchell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Judging by the first few tracks on Count Basie Orchestra's Swing Shift--the rollicking "Burnin'," "Easy Go," and "Four for Basie"--the band is trying to cash in on the swing revival that sawBig Bad Voodoo Daddy play at the 1999 Super Bowl halftime show and Brian Setzer miraculously extend his career.
		Swing Shift is at once a classic swing album and a thoroughly modern big-band jazz record, with 11 new compositions and three classics showcasing brand new arrangements.
		But swing shift is elemental basie at its bluesy best, a retreat to basic precepts of swing that are "in" once again.
	www.amazon.com /Swing-Shift-Orchestra-Grover-Mitchell/dp/B00000K0U1 (1209 words)

	A teacher and her student step into the swing revival
		Locally, there's swing dancing at Heaven Downtown on Thursdays, the Soba Lounge in Shadyside on Fridays, the Pollinator Lounge in Oakland's Beehive on Sundays.
		Her concentration now is in jazz dance, and she swing dances for fun.
		Cunning says that at his college, he and several friends go out to swing dance at clubs where someone shows up to teach, but that the teachers sometimes don't really know how to swing dance credibly.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/19981201swing2.asp (500 words)

	SwingSoniq featuring Greg Leskiw - Moonglow Review
		With the swing revival has come a plethora of groups aping the music of the Thirties through Fifties.
		Whether old-time jazz, big-band swing, or early bluesy rock and roll, the music swings but it's often very mechanical.
		If today's swing revival is making a big noise, then this is a Soniq boom.
	www.swingsoniq.com /review.htm (490 words)

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