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Western swing is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. [1] [2] It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, [3] [4] which attracted huge crowds to dance halls and clubs in Texas, Oklahoma and California during the 1930s and 1940s until a federal war-time nightclub tax in 1944 contributed to the ...
He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th-century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing. Jean Butler (born () 14 March 1971), Irish step dancer; Glenn Ball (born () 27 June 1985}, English world champion line dancer and West Coast swing dancer, renowned choreographer
Formed in 1993 in Austin, Texas, the group based its style on swing, jazz, and lounge music.Singer Craig Marshall was an avid fan of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin Nat King Cole and Harry Connick Jr. Mendoza, a native of San Antonio, Texas, had toured and performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis, Clark Terry, Frank Foster, Bill Watrous, Rob McConnell, Bob Mintzer, and Harry Connick Jr.
Western couple dancing is a form of social dance.Many different dances are done to country-western music. These dances include: Two Step, Waltz, Cowboy or Traveling Cha Cha, [2] Polka Ten Step [3] (also known as Ten Step Polka [4]), Schottische, and other Western promenade dances, East Coast Swing, West Coast Swing, and Nightclub Two Step.
Yun explained that Beyoncé’s 2016 country song “Daddy Lessons” is great for two-stepping or swing, and at Sundance Saloon it might even be more popular than “Texas Hold ’Em.”
James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the founder of Western swing, [1] [2] [3] he was known widely as the King of Western Swing (although Spade Cooley self-promoted the moniker "King of Western Swing" from 1942 to 1969).
This dance move is used in a number of dances, such as West Coast Swing and Salsa, however the step pattern may vary from dance to dance. [3] The name Texas Tommy was derived from the dance with the same name, which, around 1910, was the first social dance to feature a breakaway step, from which the swingout developed. [4]
The swingout is the defining dance move of Lindy Hop. [1] The swingout evolved from the breakaway, which in turn evolved from the Texas Tommy. The first documented mention of the swingout pattern that resembles breakaway was in 1911, to describe a "Texas Tommy Swing" show done at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. [2]