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Swing: Pure Pleasure

Season 1 Episode 5 | 1hr 28m 38s

As the Great Depression drags on, jazz comes as close as it has ever come to being America's popular music

Aired: 12/14/15 | Expires: 02/07/21
Funding provided by: General Motors;PBS; Park Foundation; CPB; The Pew Charitable Trusts; The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism; NEH; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; The Reva and David Logan Foundation; The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundations; NEA; Helen and Peter Bing
Extras
Louis Armstrong's triumphant return to Europe.
Exuberant dancing at the Savoy Ballroom.
JAZZ begins in New Orleans, nineteenth century America's most cosmopolitan city.
Louis Armstrong shows the whole world how to swing.
As the stock market continues to soar, jazz is everywhere in America
Jazz is called upon to lift the spirits of a frightened country.
A new sound emerges- pulsing, stomping, suffused with the blues.
When America enters World War II, jazz is part of the arsenal.
The postwar years bring America to a level of prosperity unimaginable a decade before.
Currents of change in American now impact Jazz.