Neoswing

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Neoswing is a genre of music that combines elements from swing with modern music, especially from rock and punk , but also electronic music and nu jazz .

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Since the 1980s, some rock and punk musicians discovered boogie-woogie and swing . After the swing revival, the neoswing emerged in the USA in the mid-1990s as an alternative to techno and hip-hop .

Brian Setzer , who played successful rockabilly years ago with his Stray Cats , has great success in America with a neoswing big band and old standards like This Old House, Caravan and Pennsylvania 6-5000. Like him, other bands like the Cherry Poppin 'Daddies , who landed a hit with Zoot Suit Riot , do one more step forward after taking the step back in order to intensify the altswing with new elements for the neoswing.

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“We don't want to revive swing, we want to make rock music that adopts swing elements. Swing is dance music and jazz has melodies , a happy attitude towards life, something anarchic and the energy of punk . "

- Steve Perry , singer for the Cherry Poppin 'Daddies

Even Jim Mathus of the Squirrel Nut Zippers has nostalgic reference back: "How can a 20-year-old nostalgic feel what did not exist for anything in the last fifty years?"

Other neoswing bands have also adopted elements of pop music and other musical styles from the 20th century, although individual bands have specialized in just one of the old pop music styles. So the Squirrel Nut Zippers z. B. the New Orleans Jazz and Sinti Swing taken as the basis. Other bands refer to the classic swing, still others prefer rock 'n' roll , boogie woogie or even combine everything. Real orchestras with three wind instruments are used again. But also smaller formations up to the quartet play this music.

The bands often have strange names that are also supposed to provoke, such as Squirrel Nut Zippers , Big Bad Voodoo Daddy or Lee Press-on and the Nails. Likewise the titles of some pieces of music, e.g. B .: Shake Your Love Maker of the Cherry Poppin 'Daddies.

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