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Ready For A Brand New Beat: How Dancing In The Street Became The Anthem For A Changing America (2013)

by Mark Kurlansky(Favorite Author)

3.65 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1594487227 (ISBN13: 9781594487224)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Riverhead Hardcover

review 1: Great history of the social rights movement and Motown in the 60´s and 70´s... whilst I´m not particularly convinced that the song was anything more than a party dance tune, or even if it came to mean anything in the way that, only a few years later, Marvin Gaye´s masterwork "What´s Goin´On?" clearly DID, it still doesn´t detract from a great read. I like Kurlansky´s books...who could have thought anyone could make a fish - in this case "Cod" interesting? :-)
review 2: Clearly, this was a thread that caught Kurlansky's eye during the research for his 1968 book--how the confluence of the civil rights movement, transistor radios, the demographic wave of 17 year olds, Vietnam, Barry Gordy's experience working a Ford assembly line, radio payola, the taming ... moreof Elvis, the Kennedy assassination, the Great Migration, African-American consumer power, protests against rock and roll and the British appreciation for Motown all came together to launch Martha and the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Streets" as a zeitgeist anthem in the summer of 1964. less

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