Dancing the Big Apple, 1937 : African-Americans inspire a national craze / Dancetime Publications in association with SavoyStyle presents ; a film by Judy Pritchett.
Publisher:
Dancetime Publications,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
1 videodisc (40 min.) : black and white, color, sound ; 4 3/4 in.
Narration, Judy Pritchett, Daniel Hermann. Special features: instruction; choreography.
Contents:
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".
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."--Container.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)501181918
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.