Dancing the Big Apple, 1937 : African- Americans inspire a national craze / Dancetime Publications in association with SavoyStyle presents ; a film by Judy Pritchett.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Gee, George., Performer.

Hermann, Daniel., Narrator.

Pritchett, Judy., Director, Narrator.

Dancetime Publications.

Jump, Jive, and Wailers (Musical group)

McIntosh County Shouters (Musical group)

SavoyStyle (Firm)

Solomon Douglas Swingtet.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American dance--South Carolina--Colombia.

African American dance.

African American dance--United States.

Dance--Social aspects--South Carolina--Colombia.

Dance.

Dance--Social aspects--United States.

Ring shout (Dance).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (39 min.)

Other Title:

aDancing the Big Apple, 1937

African-Americans inspire a national craze

Place of Publication:

[Dallas] : Dancetime Publications, c2009.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Dancing the Big Apple

Big Apple hysteria

Everybody can do it!

The Ring shout

Lance Benishek teaches the Big Apple

Big Apple dance contest.

Notes:

Previously released on DVD.

Special features: instruction; choreography.

OCLC:

780479934