Re: Swing Dance. Here near Washington DC, a local PBS station, WAMU 88.5 FM, plays several hours of "Hot Jazz Saturday Night". If you go to their web site, you can stream last week's program (but only for a week, for copyright reasons). It's not always Swing Dance music (it sometimes strays into 50s jazz, bebop, or Dixieland), but often enough it is. These are part of our American musical heritage, if not part of modern popular culture (celebrating 50 years of hip-hop?!).

And, to cross link the blogs, swing dance music was a part of supporting the morale of distantly deployed military personnel. Bennie Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, etc.

Lathechuck