Big Bands
Big band music emerged in the 1930s as a spirited response to the economic problems of the Great Depression (1929–41; see entry under 1930s—The Way We Lived in volume 2). The style of music continued into the 1940s as the soundtrack to World War II (1939–45). A form of jazz (see entry under 1900s—Music in volume 1) music, big band music took jazz and swing styles from the bands of the 1920s and before and put them into arrangements for larger bands. Sometimes these larger bands had as many as twenty or more musicians. These bands usually consisted of.....
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