Rise Of Swing Music During The Great Depression

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The rise of the Swing Era coincided heavily with the onset of the Great Depression. The economic crash resulted in a want and need for escapism in some sort of format, and this was provided in swing. Its fairly simple, easy to listen to style made it good music to dance to. Because of this, new dances such as the foxtrot and Charleston began to develop, and individuals began to go to ballrooms to hear and participate in swing music. It allowed a sense of liberation from the burdens of hard times. In large part because the nation was suffering economically, swing music began to rise and become more popular.
Swing music also incorporated a variety of new instrumental roles, seeing the piano transition from a rhythm-keeper in bands to an instrument

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