Word: swingingly
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...boys of Big Bad Voodoo Daddy are going to swing the campus, or something like that, at Springfest Saturday. They also appeared in the movie Swingers, which lasts...
...Many thanks for your hugely informative tutorial on the proper usage of umbrella bags in Lamont Library. After memorizing your dos and don’ts I have been able to approach this decidedly delicate situation with new confidence. I now swing my umbrella around as much as I please without fear of contracting nasty looks from other patrons...
...musicians who took advantage of that freedom knew they were making noble music. Swing boasted Duke Ellington, Earl Hines and Count Basie, the rarest of rarities--magnanimous men within a democracy. The same men were largely dependent on that democracy for their nobility. Within what other regime could the son of a coachman--the grandson of a slave!--become a duke...
...high and popular music--indeed music worthy of a Core class some 50 years after the fact--came bop, the dizzying complexity of which (and the fact that you can't dance to it) allowed rock, via R&B, to become the popular music. Magnanimity, the crown-virtue of swing, yielded to rock's rebelliousness--which is not a virtue at all, but the weak, ugly stepchild of courage. Nowadays, the glorious mixed-regime-in-music has devolved into plain democracy-in-music: those concerned with musical excellence via jazz can still subsist (democracy is colorful, after...
...Voodoo Daddy, after the Fall, promising to reclaim the lost virtues of yesteryear. Some have flocked to their sect--several of the aforementioned culture warriors, for instance. But they are, sadly, misled. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy has taken what was low, danceable and popular from the swing era and amplified it. Their "Big Bad" has replaced a claim to nobility--replacing magnanimity with pomposity; their swagger has replaced a justly dignified comportment; and their music follows in tow. Which is not to say that they are unenjoyable--they are, in my opinion, the best of the contemporary swing bands...