| 单词 | spasm band |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspasm band spasm band n. U.S. (now Historical) a group, frequently of children, playing jazz on home-made musical instruments. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > company of instrumentalists > [noun] > band > type of waits1298 consort1587 wait player1610 wind music1650 the fiddles1676 military band1775 German band1819 street band1826 brass band1834 promenade band1836 horn-band1849 pipe band1867 wind-band1876 Hungarian band1882 jazz band1916 jazz orchestra1916 big band1919 road band1922 Schrammel quartet1924 showband1926 spasm band1926 dance-band1927 marching band1930 name band1932 ork1933 silver band1933 sweet band1935 Schrammel orchestra1938 pop band1942 jug band1946 steel band1949 rehearsal band1957 skiffle band1957 ghost band1962 support band1969 support group1969 scratch band1982 1926 P. Whiteman & M. M. McBride Jazz xiii. 267 When the last fearful note died, he turned to the leader. ‘Stale Bread,’ said he [sc. a judge], ‘you may be a band, but you're a spasm band. Discharged.’ The name stuck and the spasm band went on playing. 1943 I. Lang Background of Blues 4 Then there were the spasm bands... The saloons and sidewalks where spasm music and street singers found their most generous audiences were those of the French Quarter and particularly those in Storyville. 1964 S. Hall & P. Whannel Pop. Arts x. 297 In the early decades of the century the ‘spasm bands’ played a kind of home-made jazz on improvised instruments. < as lemmas |
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