I think music knowledge is important when you dance. After all it is the music that inspires us to dance in a certain way.
You dance differently to a classic swing song than you would do to a rhythm 'n' blues song or a hot jazz song. You probably end up dancing lindy hop, boogie woogie and charleston respectively.
To help my local swing dance scene, Swingkatten, I've put up a number of playlists on Spotify. There are two kinds of playlist, some have focus on type of music, others have their focus on what dance you'd like to to.
My intention is to make dancers more aware of the music and hopefully also inspire more people to become swing dj.
The playlists are collaborative which means that anyone can add songs to them. I encourage you to add your favorite songs to the playlists.
Spotify playlists
Focus on types of music:
- Swing
- Blues, jump blues, rhythm 'n' blues
- Hot jazz, new orleans, dixieland
- Jazz (all kinds, doesn't have to be danceable)
What do you think of the Spotify playlists for swing, jazz and blues? Please comment.
7 comments:
Thanks, I was *so* longing for this...
yeah.. you know dancing without music is no life., you can not give your full energy to dance if there's no music at all..
It would be better if someone who does not use Spotify could at least see the playlist contents.
Im in Korea, my friend, and we cannot see spotify. Would it be possible to post the list somewhere? Thank you and love the blog!
spotify is unavailable in my country so I can't see the playlist. Are you going to make it viewable as a document or something that the rest of us can see?
I have my own set of playlists (check out my public profile (alsuren)) that are a bit bigger than yours, but I don't think the quality of my playlists is quite as high as yours. Pretty much all of the songs in your playlists are ones that I want to add to my own collection.
I would like to eventually make my playlists collaborative like yours, but I'm scared of other people accidentally (or on purpose) coming along and deleting my songs. How do you protect against that?
A public list of the songs in these playlists can be found at https://github.com/alsuren/playlists/tree/master/Filtered/swingkatten
For the curious, this was produced using https://github.com/alsuren/spotigit.
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