Swing is a genre that was born in the early 1920’s, it developed from the early styles of Jazz, within the African American Culture. At this moment in time society was changing, women had gained the right to vote, it was the end of World War 1 and there were significant advances in technology. Swing not only had an impact on the music industry as a genre of music, but it was making its impact on society as a culture, making it popular for many different reasons. Jazz started to become an important quality to popular music. Swing fans - most of which were passionate teens adopted the music as their own and created a whole social phenomenon around it, much as rock and roll fans would do a generation later. As with most youth-oriented social