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swing

Group of dances tied to jazz

Also known as swing dance · swing dancing · swing dances · rock'n' swing dance

Instance of: type of dance
Subclass of: social dance

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Swing dance is a category of social dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s–1940s, with the origin of each dance predating the swing era. Hundreds of styles of swing dancing were developed; those that have survived beyond that era include Charleston, Balboa, Lindy Hop, West Coast Swing, and Collegiate Shag. Today, the best-known of these dances is the Lindy Hop, which originated in Harlem in the early 1930s. While the majority of swing dances began in African-American communities as vernacular African-American dances, some influenced swing-era dances, such as Balboa, that developed outside of these communities.

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Different from: swing
Hashtag: swingdance

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9 identifiers linking swing across the web's reference databases

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