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swing

Style of jazz or musical genre based on the rhythmic pulse of music composed of pairs of eighth notes with a longer initial note and a shorter second note

Entitymusic genreQ203775

Also known as swing jazz · swing music

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Founded
  • 1930s

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45 statements · 31% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

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38 identifiers linking swing across the web's reference databases