Swing

Class Topic-Swing

During the 1940's and some of the 50's people from all age groups, ethnicities, gender, and many parts of the world all listened to the same music, swing. This is probably the only time in history that this phenomenon occurred, and thankfully, the last. The reason this most likely occurred was because swing is a very upbeat, happy, and optimistic sounding genre, which was very important because the world was going through a very tough point in history. We just came out of the great depression, and were fighting in a war that affected nearly everybody, almost every single family was in some way touched by the war, so we needed some happy tunes to help us cope. But personally, i think that all swing sounds the same, and therefore, think it is a lousy genre of music. I could maybe tolerate a song now and then, but not much more, it all sounds the exact same to me, with the same beat, rhythm, and crappy trumpet melody in the background of someones crappy voice. I don't know how everyone back then liked it.