" new jack swing" style of music. The band was created due to a cause in Prince 's…
socialism arose. “Swing Kids” takes place in Hamburg, 1939, right on the brink of World War…
The atmosphere in both The Wave and Swing Kids went from being fun and exciting, to mean and disrespectful. Before The Wave started, students were free to associate with whom ever they chose and people felt that they could speak freely. It was a pretty safe environment and Gordan high was just an average school. After The Wave the school had become a dictatorship, and felt militaristic. If you were not part of The Wave you were made to feel scared, the culture became full of fear and the students were pressured into joining. In the film the Swing Kids before the HJ, the Nazis allowed Swing cubs to still run, and people were able to socialize with non-Jewish people. The Nazis were judgmental of Swing Kids and killed anyone who was Jewish or people who helped the Jewish, even if they were German. Arvid, Thomas and Peter were all good friends at the time, and they all stood up for each other. After the HJ the Swing club was closed down and people were not allowed to listen to Swing music anymore.…
‘’He alone, who owns the youth, gain the future’’. Said Adolf Hitler. Prejudice against jews.…
The Phat Cat Swinger has nine members including one vocalist, one baritone saxophonist, one alto saxophonist, one tenor saxophonist, one trombonist, one trumpeter, one guitarist, one drummer and one upright bass-er. All of them have good musical skills that brought us such an amazing show and a great sense of jazz. They are totally deserved to be one of the most popular swing band in Los Angeles area. Generally, they have all the characteristics of a typical swing band. Their music that night was energetic and bright with fast tempo and very full and strong rhythm section with the frontline of saxophones, trumpet and trombone holding the band together. There were lots of swung notes that made the texture more diverse. I did not need to have either a good ear for jazz or good musical knowledge…
The Hitler Youth was an organization of young men around the ages of 14-18 that were meant to insure the future of Nazi Germany. Since its creation in 1926 the membership of the organization had grown from roughly 5,000 to nearly 8,000,000 due to the Nazi Party forcing nearly all children to be a part of it. Many activities closely resembled military training, with weapons training, assault course circuits and basic tactics.…
It uses a section of double bass and drums for a bassline to lead the section of brass instruments like trumpets and trombones, woodwinds like clarinets and string instruments. It can be medium of fast tempo. The term swing was derived from swing feel which is the emphasis of the off-beat and the weaker pulse in music. In swing music it usually features soloists which on the melody, they improvise on the melody played by the others. There was also the swing era, where the pre dominant form of swing is clear, between 1935 and 1946. The verb “to swing” can be also used to play strong rhythmic groove and drive. In the 1920’s, performers wanted to use a larger ensemble using written arrangements. As I have said before from 1935 to 1946. In this period the big band swing reached its peak in America.…
Here at the Savory Ballroom it was integrated. Anyone and everyone could attend and learn the latest swing dance moves and listen to the latest swing music. One might even attend the dance clubs to watch or be a judge for the dance competitions. Dancing was so big, that many enjoyed it. With all who attended, the club had to replace the floors every three…
As men left to fight in the Great War in the late 1910's, women in the U.S. and all over Europe found themselves necessary to make the homefront function, i.e. women had to fill the holes in industry and social life that the absence of men created for them. It is at this time that the flapper appears; a new kind of woman with short, bobbed hair, shorter skirts and freer clothes to match her new, freer lifestyle. It is no wonder that the vote was given to women during this time, as the idea of gender equality became a reality in its necessity.…
All throughout human history, dance has played an important part in cultures around the world its purpose ranging from rituals to entertainment. As cultures grow and mature dance often reflects the movements and mood of the era. So how does dancing of the 1920’s reflect the cultural movements of the 1920s? Such as the changes in both the Women’s right and African Americans movements.…
Intro: After the Swing Era and World War II, American social dancing cooled down in the late 1940s. The shift from dance bands to concerts in nightclubs was due to several factors. Musician union fees made big bands unaffordable, the cool down of jazz, and a generation of post-war veterans with the new priority of settling down and raising a family. But the youngsters still wanted to dance. This was the shift.…
The dance style that accompanied Swing music was called Swing Dancing ("Swing Jazz - America's Music"). Swing Dancing features one partner's throwing the other over his head and through his legs ("Swing Jazz - America's Music") . According to the text Swing Jazz - America's Music, “Swing musicians helped erode the wall between our definitions of popular music and the art music generally labeled “classical.” Swing has a big culture background. Swing Jazz began to blend with urban Americans most popular genre ("Swing Jazz - America's Music") . Western swing became popular in Texas, Oklahoma, and California ("Swing Jazz - America's Music"). The people that wrote Swing music are important. Americans dance to swing bands ("Swing Jazz - America's Music"). The great first artists of Swing were African American. Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, and Jimmie Lunceford began to blend the “hot” rhythms ("Swing Jazz - America's…
Landon Jones once said, "the cry of the baby was heard across the land" (Baby Boomer-History Channel). This quote refers to the post World War II era, the beginning of the baby boom, where millions of babies were born between 1946-1964. By 1964 this new generation made up almost 40% of the nation's population. Baby Boomers grew up in a suburban lifestyle and were constantly surrounded by material culture, but by their teenage years they began to resist consumerism and suburban ethos. The baby boomers "began to fight for social, economic and political equality for disadvantaged groups....and some dropped out of political life altogether" (Baby Boomers-History Channel). This resistance from the baby boomers began the counterculture of the 1960s.…
Teens created a Youthquake, young people joined by other groups calling for change to society, along with them were members of the women's movement, the environmental movement, and Aboriginal nations…
Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Conway T. Witty, Chuck Berry, Big Joe Williams, Big Joe Turner, Little Richard, Bi Diddle, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Johnny Burnett, Vince Taylor, Itchier Valenti, Marlon Brando and James Dean. What do all of these people have in common? They were all figure heads of the greaser subculture. The subcultures of the 1950s impacted our world a lot after World War II. From the roots of the 1950s, the greaser subculture has had two main impacts which are their attitude and style.…