Chronicling over forty years of critical changes in AfricanAmerican expressiveand popular culture covering diverse forms of music dance and comedy theRegal Thea... » 

Chronicling over forty years of critical changes in AfricanAmerican expressiveand popular culture covering diverse forms of music dance and comedy theRegal Theater 19281968 was the largest and most architecturally splendidmoviestageshow venue ever constructed for a black community. In this historyof that theater Clovis E. Semmes reveals the political economic and businessrealities of cultural production and the institutional inequalities thatcircumscribed black life. «