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

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 begin...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Dancetime Publications, Jump, Jive, and Wailers (Musical group), McIntosh County Shouters (Musical group), SavoyStyle (Firm), Solomon Douglas Swingtet
Other Authors:	Gee, George (Performer), Hermann, Daniel (Narrator), Pritchett, Judy (Director, Narrator)
Format:	Video
Language:	English
Published:	[Dallas] : Dancetime Publications, [2009]
Series:	Dance in video.
Subjects:	African American dance > South Carolina > Colombia. African American dance. Dance > Social aspects > South Carolina > Colombia. Dance > Social aspects > United States. Ring shout (Dance) Short films. Internet videos. Filmed dance. Nonfiction films.
Online Access:	Connect to this online video Connect to this online video

Table of 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.