Swing, That Modern Sound
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: September 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781578063833
Subjects: Jazz; Western music: periods & styles; Music; Music/Songbooks; Genres & Styles - Jazz; History & Criticism - General; History and criticism; Swing (Music)
First sentence: During the spring and summer of 1935, popular memory has told us, swing was born when Benny Goodman and his band won the approval of the audience at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles after a grueling tour that began in New York City.