Western swing (Music)
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- Western swing (Music)
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- Texas swing (Music)
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- found: Work cat.: Hunkel, G. Western swing and country jazz, c1983.
- found: New Grove dict of jazz(Originat[ed] largely in the fiddle and guitar bands in Texas during the 1920s; traditional frontier dance music; improvised like jazz bands, from whom they borrowed freely; term not used widely until after World War II; California the new center of the style in the 1940s; influenced the main stream of country music in the use of drums, walking bass patterns, and electronic instruments)
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- 2014-12-10: new
- 2015-02-13: revised
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