Rockabilly Swing
The Music and the Dress
Rockabilly swing is a division of
the original sub-cultural style created by Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore,
and Billy Black in the 1954 Memphis recording sessions for Sun Records.
Rockabilly swing is very similar to the original rockabilly style.
However, rockabilly music, with its strong beat, country twang, and
sultry rhythms, was slightly simpler.
The off-beat was accented, rather than the down beat, but
otherwise, the rhythms were very simple.
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Another blend of cultures included
the rockabilly swing dress. Rather
than wearing the standard gingham blouses and straight skirts opted for by
many rockabilly women, some chose to wear a dress more styled after the
swing dress. These dresses
were lower cut and more alluring in their sex appeal.
At the same time, the rockabilly swing dress also had a flared
skirt that was much more suited and appropriate for dancing to the new
rockabilly swing music.
Rockabilly swing was one way to
popularize a less well known form of music like rockabilly and attempt to
keep it from floundering completely with the untimely death of two of its
most popular artists, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, in a plane crash in
1959. Although never becoming
as main stream as regular swing music, rockabilly swing does hold its
place in history, and, along with standard rockabilly hits, has influenced
many genres of music today.
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