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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 jazzplay

  Familiarity information: SWING MUSIC used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SWING MUSIC (noun)


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:

jive; swing; swing music

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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