Dancing in the Street Technique

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 m...

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...