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Originally Posted by Buckeye30
The most popular music was swing / jazz as personified by bands like Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman but the Afro-American "sweet, swing and jive" was found at parties and dances where the Lindy Hop and Jitterbug were taught to British girls at US airfields in England. I believe the No.1 song at the time was the Andrews Sisters' "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", but they were white.
I've met many Eighth airmen over the years (mostly fighter groups) and none seem to have had a problem with black music; but they were a long way from home.
This web site covers the period , the majority "white" but some black bands.
https://www.historyonthenet.com/auth...sic/index.html
Nick |
Nick
There wasn't a single white jazz artist who didn't listen to "black" music.
If anyone claimed he didn't.....he was lying.....
Also the inter-racial had already begun, lots of black musicians played in white bands before the war.
My own favourite from the late 1930s was Charlie Christian who started up the electric guitar!
Legend!!
Also think the Duke broke a lot of ice during the 1930s.
Never researched the subject since colour don't mean a thing to me unless we talk about camouflage....
Cheers
Stig