The Regal Theater And Black Culture

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.

Clovis E. Semmes is Professor of African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of Roots of Afrocentric Thought; Racism, Health and Post-Industrialism; and Cultural Hegemony and African-American Development.

Acknowledgments	v
Introduction: The Regal Theater and Black Culture	1	(14)
1 The Opening: Separate but Equal	15	(28)
2 The Depression Years: Privilege in the Marketplace and Black Stewardship	43	(50)
3 The End of Monopoly and the End of Swing	93	(42)
4 The Decline of Commercial Segregation and the Transition to Independence	135	(36)
5 Rebirth, Black Ownership, and the Closing of the Palace	171	(44)
6 Retrospect and Lessons Learned	215	(12)
Notes	227	(36)
Bibliography	263	(8)
Index	271

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