[Ads-l] Antedating of "Swing" (Variety of Big Dance-Band Music)

[Shapiro, Fred]

swing [variety of big dance-band music] (OED 1936, 1933 August in combination "swing band")

1933 Waterville (Maine) Morning Sentinel 25 Apr. 8/4 (Newspapers.com)  COLLETTA and her Jazz-O-Maniacs  A Real 'Swing' Band Playing Modern Rhythm.

1933 Pittsburgh Courier 28 Oct. II. 6 / 7 (Newspapers.com)  It is high time, indeed, that Louis [Armstrong] is worked [sic] the dance halls, because everyone is anxious to hear him play his swing music for actual dancing.

Fred Shapiro




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