Western swing (Music)

This heading is assigned to Western swing for two or more performers.
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86000090
- info:lc/authorities/sh86000090
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh86000090#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Swing, Western (Music)
- Texas swing (Music)
- Western swing (Music)--United States
Broader Terms
- Country music
- Jazz
Sources
- 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)
LC Classification
- ML3541
General Notes
- This heading is assigned to Western swing for two or more performers.
Change Notes
- 2005-06-02: new
- 2005-09-02: revised

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