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swing
Sign in to saveAlso known as swing jazz, swing music
style of jazz or musical genre based on the rhythmic pulse of music composed of pairs of eighth notes with a longer initial note and a shorter second note
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Within Vinony's link graph, swing is referenced by 2,594 other articles, and connects out to melody, Duke Ellington and Nat King Cole.
It sits within the topics African-American cultural history, African-American music and American styles of music.
Its subject is documented across 47 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Stylistic origins
- Ragtime Dixieland jazz New Orleans jazz big band blues
- Cultural origins
- 1930s, United States
- Derivative forms
- Traditional pop jump blues bebop
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- music genre
- Subclass of
- jazz
- Movement
- Neoclassicism
- Image
- Swingbop'ers Kombo, Swing Band Berlin.png
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- Commons category
- Swing
- topic's main category
- Category:Swing music
- inception
- 1930-00-00
- different from
- swing
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Duke Ellington
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Nat King Cole
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Benny Goodman
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Cab Calloway
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Dixieland jazz
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riff
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time signature
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Earl Hines
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Gypsy jazz
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Fletcher Henderson
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Swing
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swing revival
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orchestral jazz
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Elvis Presley
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guitar
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Louis Armstrong
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jazz
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Detroit
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piano
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