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SWING MUSIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does swing music mean?
• SWING MUSIC (noun)
The noun SWING MUSIC has 1 sense:
1. a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
Familiarity information: SWING MUSIC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("swing music" is a kind of...):
jazz (a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles)
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