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Westerns swing originated in the 1920s and 1930s; small towns in the US Southwest. Although sometimes subject to the term "Texas swing" it is widely associated with Tulsa,〔Bob Wills - Take Me Back To Tulsa: The Original Columbia Recordings Vol. 1 CD Bob Wills〕 others contend that "Western Swing music finds deep roots in the dust bowl of Oklahoma",〔http://okfiddlers.com/FiddleCDs/FiddlePractice/PracticePages/Western%20Swing%20Practice%20Soundtracks.htm Oklahoma Trading Post Fiddlers〕 and its influences include jazz from the major urban centers of the United States. Its stylistic origins lie in Old Time, Western, blues,folk,swing,Dixieland and jazz. Writing in ''Rolling Stone'', Dan Hicks described it as Texas-bred music grafted to jazz, or as "white country blues with a syncopated beat.".〔Dan Hicks|Review of Merle Haggard A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World (Or My Salute to Bob Wills)|http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/a-tribute-to-the-best-damn-fiddle-player-in-the-world-or-my-salute-to-bob-wills-19721026〕 Bob Wills is considered by many music authorities one of the fathers of Western swing along with his old Fort Worth friend, Milton Brown. Nevertheless, it is Wills who is called the King of Western Swing. A key factor in its development was the competition that the radio and recordings brought to compete with the more insular and time honored traditions of old time fiddle music.〔Brink, ''Western Swing'', p. 550: "In many ways, western swing music is a manifestation of the cultural forces that came together where the geographical isolation and harsh living conditions of the frontier met the electronic age. People still living in dugouts and sod houses on the Southern High Plains became a part of popular culture through the radio and the jukebox, mingling their musical talents and tastes with the new sounds introduced to them through the accessibility of phonographs and the airwaves."Cited at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_swing〕〔Logsdon, "Folk Songs", p. 299: "In the 1920s Bob Wills, a fiddle player son of a cotton farmer in West Texas, started playing ranch-house dances. His desire to play dances eventually developed a dance genre known as western swing. While the music has elements of jazz and blues, it actually evolved from the specific merger of cowboy and farmer folk song and instrumentation." Cited athttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_swing〕 "Hep cat" and sometime Roy Rogers stand-in Spade Cooley used the title of "King of Western Swing" as per a 1945 Warner Brothers film.〔Spade Cooley King of Swing|Warner Bros|1945http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R88k3h6AzAc〕〔^ The Soundies Distributing Corporation of America: a history and filmography of their "jukebox" musical films of the 1940s. Terenzio, MacGillivary, Okuda. 1954. page 129. ISBN 0-89950-578-3〕 ==Distinctives of the style== One of the characteristics of the genre is that fiddle is the lead instrument, unlike other genres such as Cajun in which the lead instrument varies in different eras. 〔^ Boyd, "Western Swing", p. 208: "... modernization did not diminish the unique and basically rural character of western swing, which remained distinct from mainstream horn jazz because of the prominent place given to fiddles and guitars, both standard and steel. The fiddle was the lead instrument in any western swing band, even those with horns, and every other instrumentalist adjusted to the fiddlers' stylings and preferences for sharp keys. "〕 A major characteristic of the style is syncopation and rhythmic drive - it is dance music.〔Boyd,"...there were also rhythmic differences between western swing bands and horn bands. Western swing was dance music, with the emphasis on a clearly discernible and uncluttered beat pattern. Western swing bands tended to use a highly syncopated rhythmic bass (i.e. \tfrac time signature), moving to the more relaxed swing-four (i.e., \tfrac time signature) only to back certain soloists. This gave western swing bands more rhythmic drive and an overall more aggressive character than most horn bands...〕 It was typically played in bars and in big city Western hotel buildings with large ballrooms; alcohol was served and fights were not unknown. The musicians had to keep the music going until they had fulfilled their contract and could get paid. Twin fiddles and even triple fiddle was another distinctive of Western Swing fiddle.〔http://www.texasfiddlemusic.com/system.html〕 Jesse Ashlock was the first and longest-standing of Wills’s fiddle players, and the first to do “take off” solos. He had a considerable armoury of techniques including the double shuffle, triplets, parallel fifths and lots of syncopation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Western swing fiddle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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