Ninety percent of the nation danced to it or listened to it, and it provided the beat for the war machine. Every GI knew the names of the band leaders. Swing owned the day. Caroline Gerenyi, co-chair of education for UD's Swing Club, says she can't decide if she likes the original swing music or today's modern style better. But the modern music has the same beat as the original swing music and we do the same basic dancing.
Modern music seems to incorporate more vocals, and the original seems to be more instrumental.
Gerenyi, a senior public relations major, began swing dancing her senior year of high school and continued as a first-year college student with the UD Swing Club. She says she has seen a resurgence in the interest of swing music and dancing since she began college. It was still very young in 1995, when I came in as a freshman. Now we see a lot of interest from students. The new swing GAP commercial and movies like Swing Kids and Swingers may have helped to spark interest about swing style in college students.