Ready for a brand new beat
Subtitle: how "Dancing in the street" became the anthem for a changing America
By: Mark Kurlansky
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print nonfiction; Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9781410461957
Subjects: Social aspects; Civil rights; Vandellas (Musical group); Civil rights movements; Music; Social History; HISTORY; African Americans; History
Description: Can a song change a nation? In 1964, Marvin Gaye, record producer William "Mickey" Stevenson, and Motown songwriter Ivy Jo Hunter wrote "Dancing in the Street." Recorded by Martha and the Vandellas and released on July 31, the song was supposed to be an upbeat dance recording. But in the summer of Mississippi Freedom, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Act, and the lead-up to a dramatic election, the song took on new meanings.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-401).
Table of contents: title: Calling out around the world; title: Are you ready?; title: A brand new beat; title: Summer's here; title: The time is right for dancing in the street; title: It doesn't matter what you wear; title: Appendix 1. Timeline of the Summer of 1964 ; 2. The discography of the song.