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"Swing, Swing" is a song by American rock band the All-American Rejects, released as their debut single from their self-titled debut studio album in December...

Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s. It became nationally popular from the mid-1930s...

own right. Voted as one of Australia's best big band drummers, his band Swing City was selected to open the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Throughout his career Morrison...

A swing bridge (or swing span bridge) is a movable bridge that can be rotated horizontally around a vertical axis. It has as its primary structural support...

In American politics, a swing state (also known as battleground state, toss-up state, or purple state) is any state that could reasonably be won by either...

Swing dance is a group of social dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s–1940s, with the origins of each dance predating...

The Swing (French: L'Escarpolette), also known as The Happy Accidents of the Swing (French: Les Hasards heureux de l'escarpolette, the original title)...

The swing ride or chair swing ride (sometimes called a swing carousel, wave swinger, yo-yo, waver swinger, Chair-O-Planes, Dodo or swinger) is an amusement...

New jack swing, new jack, or swingbeat is a fusion genre of the rhythms and production techniques of hip hop and dance-pop, and the urban contemporary...

A swing vote is a vote that is seen as potentially going to any of a number of candidates in an election, or, in a two-party system, may go to either...

district now contains the heavily Democratic cities of Palm Springs and Palm Desert, along with the swing city of Corona and conservative areas in western...

Swing Phi Swing Social Fellowship, Inc. (SΦS) is a non-profit social fellowship, as opposed to a traditional Greek lettered sorority. It was founded as...

charts and when influential clarinettists were household names. This was the swing era. Scott Yanow, Du Noyer, Paul (2003). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of...

Brown & Swing City was an American country music group, consisting of Roger Brown and ten other musicians. The band released one western swing EP on Decca...

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...

A swing is a seat, often found at playgrounds for children, at a circus for acrobats, or on a porch for relaxing, although they may also be items of indoor...

West Coast Swing is a partner dance with roots in Lindy Hop, characterized by an elastic look that results from its extension-compression technique of...

years later the Ellington centennial was honored with the album Live in Swing City: Swingin' with the Duke (1999). Under the leadership of Marsalis, the...

Swing, Brother, Swing is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the fifteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1949 in the...

"Straight" versus swung In music, the term swing has two main uses. Colloquially, it is used to describe the propulsive quality or "feel" of a rhythm...