History The origins of the West Coast Swing are in the Lindy Hop.How to Become a Good Dancer by Arthur Murray 1947 Simon and Schuster. revised edition. page 175. Western swing, country boogie, and, with a smaller audience, jump blues were popular on the West Coast throughout the 1940s and into the 1950s when they were renamed and marketed as rock and roll in 1954. Dancers danced "a 'swingier' more smooth and subdued" form of jitterbug to Western swing music.
History The origins of the West Coast Swing are in the Lindy Hop.How to Become a Good Dancer by Arthur Murray 1947 Simon and Schuster. revised edition. page 175. Western swing, country boogie, and, with a smaller audience, jump blues were popular on the West Coast throughout the 1940s and into the 1950s when they were renamed and marketed as rock and roll in 1954 Dancers d.anced "a 'swingier' more smooth and subdued" form of jitterbug to Western swing music.