Word: jiving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty-five A.S.T.P. foreign language and engineering students have devoted their spare time to write and stage this satirical comedy which pokes fun at Harvard, Radcliffe, the "Harvard Navy," and the faculty. Choreography created by director Robert Glauber and original music ranging from operetta to jive will highlight the show...
...John Philip Sousa rest in peace; his marches are not being played in "jive tempo" and his scores are not being touched up with "hot licks and modern dance-hall harmonies." And let Bandmaster Edwin Franko Goldman forget his rage. He was misinformed...
...Army bandmasters had the horrors last week. A U.S. Army band (the 418th Army Air Forces Band from the Technical School at Yale) had suddenly, and disconcertingly, got rhythm. When it swung down the line blaring such hallowed items as John Philip Sousa's Stars & Stripes Forever in jive tempo, sober listeners began to wonder what U.S. brass-band music was coming to. Obviously, there was an Afro-Saxon in the woodpile...
...long train of coaches stood in the multitracked railway yard of a staging area. Down the road came the troops, sweat glinting under their helmets, their eyes straight ahead. They had a band. When the colored contingents slapped along, the band broke into jive. The men jigged, some of them; some grinned. But nobody, black or white, laughed aloud or wisecracked...
Although a versatile group of varied interests and backgrounds, they get together very well as a jive band to throw the cadence for the jam sessions at Phillips Brooks House, third deck, once a week. Attendance has increased 100 per cent since their start