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Title Dancing the Big Apple, 1937 : African- Americans inspire a national craze / Dancetime Publications in association with SavoyStyle presents ; a film by Judy Pritchett
Published [Dallas] : Dancetime Publications, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (39 min.)
Series Dance in video.
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
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
Notes Previously released on DVD
Special features: instruction; choreography
Subject African American dance -- South Carolina -- Colombia
African American dance -- United States
Dance -- Social aspects -- South Carolina -- Colombia
Dance -- Social aspects -- United States
Ring shout (Dance)
African American dance.
Dance -- Social aspects.
Ring shout (Dance)
United States.
Genre/Form Nonfiction films.
Nonfiction films.
Films autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Gee, George, 1960-
Hermann, Daniel.
Pritchett, Judy.
Dancetime Publications.
Jump, Jive, and Wailers (Musical group)
McIntosh County Shouters (Musical group)
SavoyStyle (Firm)
Solomon Douglas Swingtet.
Other Titles ADancing the Big Apple, 1937
African-Americans inspire a national craze