Music: Swing and Elecro Swing

Slartibartfast · November 22, 2015, 9:37am

If you have read Malcolm X’s biography “M” then you have probably come across the phrase “Lindy Hop”. Lindy Hop is a form of dance that developed in the 1920’s around Harlem that involves rigorous animated movements sometimes done solo or with a partner.( If you haven’t read the book, you should read it… or watch the movie.) The dance has Africa emended deep in it’s DNA and was accompanied by a variation of upbeat Jazz known as the SWING with guys dressed Zoot Suits and the women in short skirts and low-white sneakers. Kuna hii ngoma ya Collo na Alfayo Miguel “Msichana High class” samples Swing music and uses clips from some movie I don’t know which… Pia kama ulikua unaangalia Tom and Jerry na @TopCat umeshasikia swing mara nyingi sana.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/12/4/1386183506965/Jitterbug-or-Lindy-Hop-001.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OapkoQEzQS0

Scene from the movie Malcolm X demonstrating The Lindy Hop and swing music. Notice the funny the Joker suits… those are Zoot Suits that were in fashion back then. The ones in old time gangster movies.

Msichana High-class ya Collo na Alfayo Miguel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaMrYqUvqjE

Anyway, I got introduced into this music a couple of weeks na nimependa sana. Here are some of my favorites…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYhIgT8YIrk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I36lo4zQZHU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FALYmqt-7TQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yu8j8pPArA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTIP_FOdq24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djZCe7ou3kY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIMg8an9Erg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-r6OK701UQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpmOTGungnA