SWING MUSIC

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Meaning:

A style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz

Synonyms:

jive; swing; swing music

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("swing music" is a kind of...):

jazz (a genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles)