Tag: Ready for a Brand New Beat

Calling out around the world

Mark Kurlansky (author of among other books of Cod, Paper, and Salt) takes Martha and the Vandellas’ ‘Dancing in the Street’ as his guide to write an account of the transformative year of 1964. It was the year the Beatles formed the advance troops of the British Invasion. It was the year of Freedom Summer in Mississippi, when…

Read more Calling out around the world