Ready for a Brand New Beat: How Dancing in the Street Became the Anthem for a Changing America Paperback - 2014

Details

• Title Ready for a Brand New Beat: How Dancing in the Street Became the Anthem for a Changing America
• Author Mark Kurlansky
• Binding Paperback
• Edition Reprint
• Pages 336
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Riverhead Books
• Date 2014-07-01
• Illustrated Yes
• Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
• ISBN 9781594632730 / 1594632731
• Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
• Dimensions 7.75 x 5.08 x 0.93 in (19.69 x 12.90 x 2.36 cm)
• Ages 18 to UP years
• Grade levels 13 - UP
• Themes
  • Chronological Period: 1960's
  • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Topical: Black History
• Dewey Decimal Code 323.119

Praise for Ready for a Brand New Beat
 
“Historians and music lovers alike will be grateful for Mr. Kurlansky’s thorough appreciation of this iconic song.” —The Wall Street Journal
 
“Mr. Kurlansky has come up with a book that will make you hum its theme song.” —The New York Times
 
“A fun and informative read about a cool song.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer
 
“Comprehensive…effective…a strong case for why ‘Dancing in the Street’ would be widely interpreted as a call to action.” —The New Yorker
 
Praise for Mark Kurlansky

"Every once in a while a writer of particular skill takes a fresh, seemingly improbable idea and turns out a book of pure delight." -- David McCullough

“Fascinating stuff . . . [Kurlansky] has a keen eye for odd facts and natural detail.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Kurlansky continues to prove himself remarkably adept at taking a most unlikely candidate and telling its tale with epic grandeur.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Brilliant… Journalistic skills might be part of a writer’s survival kit, but they infrequently prove to be the foundation for literary success, as they have here. …. Kurlansky has a wonderful ear for the syntax and rhythm of the vernacular… For all the seriousness of Kurlansky’s cultural entanglements, it is nevertheless a delight to experience his sophisticated sense of play and, at times, his outright wicked sense of humor.” —The New York Times Book Review