Everything about The Swing Era totally explained
The
Swing Era was the period of time (1935–1946) when
big band swing music was the most popular music in
America. Though the music has been around since the late
1920s -early
1930s, being played by Black bands like
Duke Ellington,
Ella Fitzgerald,
Cab Calloway,
Louis Armstrong, &
Fletcher Henderson, most historians believe that the Swing Era started with
Benny Goodman's performance at the
Palomar Ballroom on
August 21,
1935, bringing the music to the rest of the country. Other musicians who would rise during this time include
Jimmy Dorsey, his baby brother
Tommy Dorsey,
Glenn Miller,
Count Basie, & Goodman's future rival
Artie Shaw. Several factors left to the demise of the swing era; the recording ban from August 1942 to November 1944 (The union that most jazz musicians belong to told its members not to record until the record companies agree to pay them each time their music is played on the radio), the earlier ban of
ASCAP songs from radio stations,
World War II which made it harder for bands to travel around as well as the "cabaret tax", which was as high as 20%, the change in music taste & the rise of
bebop. Though Ellington & Basie were able to keep their bands together (the latter did briefly downsize his band; from 1950-1952), by the end of
1946, most of their competitors were forced to disband, bringing the swing era to a close.
Songs from the Swing Era
The Swing Era has left behind a lot of recordings that are now classics. Some of those are:
Other meanings
The general culture of the times between and during the
Spanish Civil War and
World War II was often called the swing era.
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