Swing Music

Throughout the years 1935 to 1945, swing music was at it's peak and it gave the soldiers in the war inspiration to fight. Many famous musicians and celebrites provided help and fun activities for soldiers such as Duke Ellington and Bob Hope. I believe the younger generations were really into the hot swing, such as Fletcher Henderson, and Chick webb. The sweet swing was more for the older more prodominetly middle to upper class whites. Now a days the music is so much more sexual and dirty, sweet music would never sell in this era. The type of dancing grinding now acts as the dirty dancing from the mid 1900's. Swing music has influenced many different artist today and was a important style of music in Amercan Culture.