The Regal Theater and black culture

by Clovis E. Semmes

"The Regal story chronicles over forty years of critical changes in African American expressive and popular culture, covering diverse forms of music, dance, and comedy and linking them to crucial developments in film, radio, the recording industry, and television. Moreover, the Regal story reveals the political, economic, and business realities of cultural production and the structure of institutional inequalities that circumscribed urban African American communities."--Jacket.