- Swing Era
- big-band era of 1930s and ’40s
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Swing Era
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Swing (dance) — The term swing dance commonly refers to a group of dances that developed concurrently with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s, 30s and 40s, although the earliest of these dance forms predate swing jazz music. The best known of these… … Wikipedia
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Swing (politics) — Swing in a British political context is a single figure used as an indication of the scale of voter change between two political parties. It originated as a mathematical calculation for comparing the results of two constituencies. The term swing… … Wikipedia
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Swing (cualidad musical) — William Parker y Rashid Bakr (1976): aunque la noción de tocar con un sentido de swing está asociada con el estilo de jazz de los años 1930 del mismo nombre (el Swing, o era big band), se puede decir de la música jazz de cualquier época que tiene … Wikipedia Español
