ALL THE PRESS HYPE ABOUT THE RISE of ’40s swing music in the last year seemed like so much jive. Until now. While isolated clubs and scenes have long pushed Big Band sounds, the movement had little ...

A decade ago, the neo-swing movement was in, er, full swing. That damned commercial for The Gap, featuring models foxtrotting and Lindy-hopping to Louis Prima, was cluttering our TV screens, and the ...

No band in the current swing movement is as quirky, eclectic and smart as the Squirrel Nut Zippers. This slightly warped group from North Carolina first gained wide exposure with the slightly warped ...

In 1998, the economy was booming, and a presidential sex scandal was the biggest threat to the nation's well-being. America was ready to come inside and learn how to jive an' wail. By Kenneth ...

Swing! is an all-singing, all-dancing evening of entertainment featuring a mix of new and classic songs and over 30 tour de force dance numbers--some comic, some romantic, some nostalgic, some sexy.

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It's easy to understand how neo-swing came to be, but it's impossible to understand why it turned out the way it did. Since the genre's origins in the early 1990s, the (rather minuscule) swing scene ...