Word: hipsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When they are working in combos, G.I. musicians are allowed to play the kind of music they themselves prefer. Since most of them are young draftees, musically well educated and hep as any hipster, their soldier audiences are treated to a repertory of numbers and arrangements more advanced than most Stateside bands would play for fear of scaring away cash audiences. But Army audiences also get the tunes they want, though sometimes in experimental arrangements. The tunes they wanted most last week were You Belong to Me, Why Don't You Believe Me?, Dancing on the Ceiling, Wish...