Swing Music and Swing Dancing

Students in third and fourth grade are learning about swing music and singing the song “Pumpkin Jack” which is a song in a swing style!  Swing music is a music that developed in America in the 1930s.  Swing music uses a strong rhythm section of double bass and drums and features brass instruments such as trumpets and trombones and woodwind instruments such as saxophones.  It also has a great beat to dance to, swing dancing is still popular today!