The Regal Theater and Black Culture
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Chronicling over forty years of critical changes in African-American expressive and popular culture, covering diverse forms of music, dance, and comedy, the Regal Theater (1928-1968) was the largest and most architecturally splendid movie-stage-show venue ever constructed for a black community. In this history of that theater, Clovis E. Semmes reveals the political, economic, and business realities of cultural production and the institutional inequalities that circumscribed black life.
vividly recreated the forty year life span (1928-1968) of black Chicago’s cultural
cornerstone, the Regal Theater. Although the physical Regal Theater is gone
(having met the wrecking ball more than a generation ago), The Regal Theater
and Black Culture admirably insures that this African American urban landmark
will not be forgotten.“—Robert E. Weems, Jr., author of Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925-1985“Semmes provides a fascinating study of one of America’s most important theater institutions. By providing such a rich history of the Regal Theater, Semmes is also able to make broader claims about the negotiation of race in the 20th century. This book is vital reading for anyone interested in American performance history and African American popular culture. A major contribution!”–Nadine George-Graves, Associate Professor, UCSD, Department of Theater and Dance
Clovis E. Semmes is Professor of Black Studies and Sociology and Director of Black Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and Professor Emeritus of African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University. He earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University. Semmes’s teaching and research include the impact of systemic inequality on African American institutional and cultural development, the conceptual and theoretical foundations of knowledge in African American studies, African American expressive and popular culture, comparative urban communities, and health systems and practices among African Americans, especially alternative and non-medical health systems and practices. Among his publications are Cultural Hegemony and African American Development; Racism, Health, and Post-Industrialism; and Roots of Afrocentric Thought: A Reference Guide to Negro Digest/Black World, 1961-1976.
“In this exhaustively researched, skillfully crafted, study, Clovis E. Semmes has“This magnificent volume should be indispensable reading for students of African- American and American culture. It provides searching scholarship from which sophisticated students, no less than beginners in the field, are likely to learn much. One cannot help but note that the cultural offerings of Chicago were brilliantly in evidence during the time the national spotlight was for so long focused on New York’s Harlem. A landmark achievement.”–Sterling Stuckey, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, University of California at Riverside
vividly recreated the forty year life span (1928-1968) of black Chicago’s cultural
cornerstone, the Regal Theater. Although the physical Regal Theater is gone
(having met the wrecking ball more than a generation ago), The Regal Theater
and Black Culture admirably insures that this African American urban landmark
will not be forgotten.“—Robert E. Weems, Jr., author of Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925-1985“Semmes provides a fascinating study of one of America’s most important theater institutions. By providing such a rich history of the Regal Theater, Semmes is also able to make broader claims about the negotiation of race in the 20th century. This book is vital reading for anyone interested in American performance history and African American popular culture. A major contribution!”–Nadine George-Graves, Associate Professor, UCSD, Department of Theater and Dance
Acknowledgements * Introduction * The Opening: Separate but Equal * The Depression Years: Privilege in the Marketplace and Black Stewardship * The End of Monopoly and the End of Swing * The Decline of Commercial Segregation and the Transition to Independence * Rebirth, Black Ownership, and the Closing of the Palace * Retrospect and Lessons Learned * Bibliography
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Weight | 1 oz |
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Dimensions | 1 × 6 × 9 in |