"Brown, Milton"@en . "1903-09-07Z"^^ . "\"Father of Western Swing\""@en . . "1903Z"^^ . "Milton Brown"@en . "1936Z"^^ . "1930Z"^^ . "1936Z"^^ . "1936-04-18Z"^^ . . "Milton Brown (September 7, 1903 \u2013 April 18, 1936) was an American band leader and vocalist who co-founded the genre of Western swing. His band was the first to fuse hillbilly hokum, jazz, and pop together into a unique, distinctly American hybrid, thus giving him the nickname, \"Father of Western Swing\". The birthplace of Brown's upbeat \"hot-jazz hillbilly\" string band sound was developed at the Crystal Springs Dance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas from 1931 to 1936."@en . "American musician" . . "Milton Brown"@en . "non_vocal_instrumentalist" . . .