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Ain't nothing like the real thing : how the Apollo Theater shaped American entertainment / edited by Richard Carlin and Kinshasha Holman Conwill.

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Washington, DC : National Museum of African American History and Culture through Smithsonian Books, c2010.

Apollo Theater (New York, N.Y. : 125th Street)

African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Music -- History and criticism.

Popular music -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.

9781588342690 :

264 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 29 cm.

Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc. Foreword / Richard D. Parsons and Jonelle Procope -- The Apollo: a place of possibility / Lonnie G. Bunch III -- Growing up with the Apollo / Smokey Robinson -- James Brown live at the Apollo / Greg Tate -- The godfather of soul, finally at rest / Herb Boyd -- 1. Black metropolis: New York City's Harlem, 1914 to 1934. City of refuge: early Harlem / David Levering Lewis -- The long road traveled to Harlem's Apollo / James V. Hatch -- Spotlight: the empress Bessie Smith / Karen Chilton -- James Reese Europe's Band's triumphant return to Harlem / Robert G. O'Meally -- Popular dance of the 1920s and early '30s: from animal dance crazes to the lindy hop / Thomas F. DeFrantz -- 2. New Deal, new swing: the Apollo Theater in the 1930s and 1940s. It's showtime! The birth of the Apollo Theater / Tuliza Fleming -- Impresario Frank Schiffman / John Edward Hasse -- Heyday of the big bands / John Edward Hasse -- Great jazz and pop singers / John Edward Hasse -- A people's theater / Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. -- Spotlight: Ella Fitzgerald at the Apollo / Willard Jenkins -- Pioneering comedians / Mel Watkins -- Tap and the Apollo Theater / Zita Allen -- The Apollo chorus girls / Zita Allen -- The Apollo Theater and the chitlin circuit / Mark Anthony Neal -- African Americans and World War II / Robert L. Allen --

3. The soul of the Apollo: the Apollo Theater in the 1950s and 1960s. The Apollo's golden years / Herb Boyd -- The gospel caravan / Joyce Marie Jackson -- Spotlight: Dionne Warwick: working the Apollo / Ted Fox -- Bobby Schiffman remembers / Ted Fox -- The Apollo and civil rights / Herb Boyd -- Harlem, black creativity, and black consciousness / Amiri Baraka -- Popular African American dance of the 1950s and '60s / Thomas F. DeFrantz -- Stand-up comedy / Mel Watkins -- Modern jazz at the Apollo / Willard Jenkins -- 4. A changing Harlem, a changing Apollo: the Apollo Theater in the 1970s and 1980s. The Apollo adapts to a changing world / David Hinckley -- Spotlight: the queen of soul / Herb Boyd -- Up south at the Apollo: funk takes center stage in the 1960s and '70s / Kandia Crazy Horse -- Latin music at the Apollo / Christopher Washburne -- Spotlight: Celia Cruz / Christopher Washburne -- 5. A new Apollo for a new Harlem: the Apollo Theater in the 1990s and 2000s. An anchor in Harlem: Apollo, more than a theater / David J. Maurrasse -- Rap music and hip-hop culture / Mark Anthony Neal -- Spotlight: Savion Glover / Zita Allen -- Nightbirds at the Apollo: the legendary Labelle reunites in splendor / Kandia Crazy Horse.

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