The Regal Theater and Black Culture

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The Regal Theater and Black Culture

Author	: C. Semmes
File Size	: 41,6 Mb
Publisher	: Springer
Language	: English
Release Date	: 02 April 2006
ISBN	: 9781403983305
Pages	: 294 pages

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The Regal Theater and Black Culture by C. Semmes Book PDF Summary

Chronicling over forty years of changes in African-American popular culture, the Regal Theatre (1928-1968) was the largest movie-stage-show venue ever constructed for a Black community. Semmes reveals the political, economic and business realities of cultural production and the institutional inequalities that circumscribed Black life.

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