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Dancing in the Street
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Martha and the Vandellas
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Dancing in the Street Technique
Great lyrics move us like the world's best poems. Take a close-up look at the art.
Music
"Dancing in the Street" is musically representative of the "Motown Sound." Company founder Berry Gordy bet that a large mainstream market existed for rhythm and blues, if only it were packaged and...
Setting
"Dancing in the Street" doesn't contain any references to a single, deliberate setting. In one stanza an "invitation" is issued "across the nation"; in another the singers call out "around the worl...
