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Ain't nothing like the real thing : how the Apollo Theater shaped American entertainment

Title
  1. Ain't nothing like the real thing : how the Apollo Theater shaped American entertainment / edited by Richard Carlin and Kinshasha Holman Conwill.
Published by
  1. Washington, DC : National Museum of African American History and Culture through Smithsonian Books, ©2010.
Supplementary content
  1. Contributor biographical information
  2. Publisher description

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Additional authors
  1. Carlin, Richard, 1956-
  2. Conwill, Kinshasha.
Description
  1. 264 pages : illustrations (some color), map; 29 cm
Summary
  1. Celebrates the seventy-five years of the Apollo Theater, from the Harlem Renaissance to the present, discussing its significance in African American entertainment and its role in social and political racial issues.
Alternative title
  1. How the Apollo Theater shaped American entertainment
Subject
  1. Popular music
  2. African Americans > Music
  3. Apollo Theater (New York, N.Y. : 125th Street)
  4. Popular music > New York (State) > New York > History and criticism
  5. New York (State) > New York
  6. Criticism, interpretation, etc
  7. African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Music > History and criticism
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. Black metropolis : New York City's Harlem, 1914 to 1934 -- New Deal, new swing : the Apollo Theater in the 1930s and 1940s -- The soul of the Apollo : the Apollo Theater in the 1950s and 1960s -- A changing Harlem, a changing Apollo : the Apollo Theater in the 1970s and 1980s -- A new Apollo for a new Harlem : the Apollo Theater in the 1990s and 2000s.
Call number
  1. Sc+ F 10-468
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-253) and index.
Title
  1. Ain't nothing like the real thing : how the Apollo Theater shaped American entertainment / edited by Richard Carlin and Kinshasha Holman Conwill.
Imprint
  1. Washington, DC : National Museum of African American History and Culture through Smithsonian Books, ©2010.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-253) and index.
Connect to:
  1. Contributor biographical information
  2. Publisher description
Added author
  1. Carlin, Richard, 1956-
  2. Conwill, Kinshasha.
LCCN
  1. 2009049054
ISBN
  1. 9781588342690
  2. 1588342697
Research call number
  1. Sc+ F 10-468
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