Swingers and Swing Kids are two movies released in the last 10 years that have shown the different aspects of swing and the events surrounding its popularity. Swing even has a hold on our own Purdue s campus. On Friday, February 5, there is a free swing dance at the Purdue Memorial Union. For some reason swing never lost its popularity completely. Americans have continued to dance and to practice this style that originated over 50 years ago.
Swing is once again the thing.
This dance has hit America by storm as is growing strong one more time. The younger crowds are making big band music a way of life. They frequent swing clubs and learn the dance that their grandparents once embraced as their own. From New York to San Francisco all the joints are jumping again. Now there is even a little rivalry between the swingers of the east and those of the west.