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Dancing the Big Apple, 1937 African-Americans inspire a national craze

Title
  1. Dancing the Big Apple, 1937 [videorecording] : African-Americans inspire a national craze / Dancetime Publications in association with SavoyStyle presents ; a film by Judy Pritchett.
Published by
  1. [Dallas] : Dancetime Publications, c2009.

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Additional authors
  1. Pritchett, Judy
  2. Hermann, Daniel
  3. Gee, George
  4. Jump, Jive, and Wailers (Musical group), performer.
  5. Solomon Douglas Swingtet, performer.
  6. McIntosh County Shouters (Musical group), performer.
  7. Dancetime Publications, presenter.
  8. SavoyStyle (Firm), presenter.
  9. Dancetime Publications, publisher.
Description
  1. 1 videodisc (40 min.) : b&w, col., sd.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. "It's 1937, and the nation is struggling to recover from the Great Depression, complicated by a new recession. Three white teenagers enter an African-American nightclub called the Big Apple in Columbia, South Carolina. They see a strange circle dance performed to popular swing music.... So begins an exciting encounter of cultural traditions the builds to a massive dance craze involving Americans from every walk of life--including the FDR family in the White House. Viewers take a journey back to Africa, through slavery, and into the fascinating account of the Ring Shout ceremony practiced by African-Americans--sometimes secretly, sometimes openly--for hundreds of years. With taproots deep in history, The Big Apple dance provided just the right medicine in trying times"--Container.
Alternative title
  1. African-Americans inspire a national craze
Subject
  1. Documentaries and factual works
  2. African American dance > South Carolina > Columbia
  3. Dance films
  4. Dance > Social aspects > South Carolina > Columbia
  5. Ring shout (Dance)
  6. Documentary films
  7. Dance > Social aspects > United States
  8. African American dance > United States
  9. Nonfiction films
Genre/Form
  1. Documentaries and factual works.
  2. Documentary films.
  3. Nonfiction films.
  4. Dance films.
Contents
  1. 1. 1937 -- 2. Whites are captivated -- 3. Big Apple hysteria --4. Ingredients of the Big Apple -- 5. Everybody can do it -- 6. The Big Apple name -- 7. Birth of the Big Apple -- 8. Big Apple performance troupes -- 9. The Ring shout -- 10. Ancestry of "Keep Punching."
Call number
  1. *MGZIDVD 5-4981
Note
  1. Special features: instruction; choreography.
Credits (note)
  1. Music, George Gee and the Jump, Jivin' Wailers ; The Solomon Douglas Swingtet ; The McIntosh County Shouters.
System details (note)
  1. DVD.
Title
  1. Dancing the Big Apple, 1937 [videorecording] : African-Americans inspire a national craze / Dancetime Publications in association with SavoyStyle presents ; a film by Judy Pritchett.
Imprint
  1. [Dallas] : Dancetime Publications, c2009.
Type of content
  1. two-dimensional moving image
Type of medium
  1. video
Type of carrier
  1. videodisc
System details
  1. DVD.
Performer
  1. Narration, Judy Pritchett, Daniel Hermann.
Credits
  1. Music, George Gee and the Jump, Jivin' Wailers ; The Solomon Douglas Swingtet ; The McIntosh County Shouters.
Added author
  1. Pritchett, Judy, director.
  2. Pritchett, Judy, narrator.
  3. Hermann, Daniel, narrator.
  4. Gee, George, performer.
  5. Jump, Jive, and Wailers (Musical group), performer.
  6. Solomon Douglas Swingtet, performer.
  7. McIntosh County Shouters (Musical group), performer.
  8. Dancetime Publications, presenter.
  9. SavoyStyle (Firm), presenter.
  10. Dancetime Publications, publisher.
Other standard identifier
  1. 880104455865
Research call number
  1. *MGZIDVD 5-4981
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