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Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America
por Kurlansky, Mark
- Usado
- Muito Bom
- Assinado
- first
- Condição
- Muito Bom/Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 1594487227
- ISBN 13
- 9781594487224
- Livreiro
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
NY: Riverhead, 2013. Very good/Near fine. First printing, signed on the title page. Back hinge starting, but holding firm, and otherwise fine. Price-clipped dustjacket with light edge wear.
Sinopse
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.” The song was recorded at Motown’s Hitsville USA Studio by Martha and the Vandellas, with lead singer Martha Reeves arranging her own vocals. Released on July 31, the song was supposed to be an upbeat dance recording—a precursor to disco, and a song about the joyousness of dance. But events overtook it, and the song became one of the icons of American pop culture. The Beatles had landed in the U.S. in early 1964. By the summer, the sixties were in full swing. The summer of 1964 was the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the beginning of the Vietnam War, the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and the lead-up to a dramatic election. As the country grew more radicalized in those few months, “Dancing in the Street” gained currency as an activist anthem. The song took on new meanings, multiple meanings, for many different groups that were all changing as the country changed. Told by the writer who is legendary for finding the big story in unlikely places, Ready for a Brand New Beat chronicles that extraordinary summer of 1964 and showcases the momentous role that a simple song about dancing played in history.
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- Livreiro
- Rural Hours
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 912
- Título
- Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America
- Autor
- Kurlansky, Mark
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Muito Bom
- Condição de sobrecapa
- Near fine
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Encadernação
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 1594487227
- ISBN 13
- 9781594487224
- Editorial
- Riverhead
- Local de publicação
- NY
- Data de publicação
- 2013
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La Grande, Oregon
Sobre Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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