Swing ShiftThe forgotten history of the all girl big bands of the World War II era takes center stage in Sherrie Tuckers Swing Shift. American demand for swing skyrocketed with the onslaught of war as millionsisolated from loved onessought diversion, comfort, and social contact through music and dance. Although all female jazz and dance bands had existed since the 1920s, now hundreds of such groups, both African American and white, barnstormed ballrooms,