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Swing Music

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Swing Music, jazz style popular in the 1930s and 1940s. It is a big-band dance music with a simple harmonic base of varying tempo from the rhythm section (percussion, guitar, piano). It also features harmonic brass and woodwind sections (sometimes strings), and a superimposed solo melodic line from, for example, trumpet, clarinet, or saxophone. Exponents included Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, and Glenn Miller, who introduced jazz to a mass white audience.



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