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

Other author/creatorGee, George, performer.
Other author/creatorHermann, Daniel, narrator.
Other author/creatorPritchett, Judy, director, narrator.
Other author/creatorDancetime Publications.
Other author/creatorJump, Jive, and Wailers (Musical group)
Other author/creatorMcIntosh County Shouters (Musical group)
Other author/creatorSavoyStyle (Firm)
Other author/creatorSolomon Douglas Swingtet.
Variant title aDancing the Big Apple, 1937
Portion of title African-Americans inspire a national craze
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.
Abstract 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.
General notePreviously released on DVD.
General noteSpecial features: instruction; choreography.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2011. (VAST-Academic video online). Available via World Wide Web.

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