Ready for a Brand New Beat: How 'Dancing in the Street' Became the Anthem for a Changing America: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Ready for a Brand New Beat: How 'Dancing in the Street' Became the Anthem for a Changing America audiobook runs 8.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Stephen Hoye (about 5.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 8.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 18 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 8.6 hours, it runs longer than 69% of the 8,856 Arts & Entertainment audiobooks in our catalog.
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Stephen Hoye narrates 144 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,715 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Arts & Entertainment shelf
1,080 Arts & Entertainment audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Ready for a Brand New Beat: How 'Dancing in the Street' Became the Anthem for a Changing America is an audiobook by Mark Kurlansky: a 8.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Stephen Hoye, released July 11, 2013, on the Arts & Entertainment and The Americas shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Stephen Hoye
- Released
- July 11, 2013
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Arts & Entertainment, The Americas, World
- ISBN
- 9781452683294
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How long is the Ready for a Brand New Beat: How 'Dancing in the Street' Became the Anthem for a Changing America audiobook?
Ready for a Brand New Beat: How 'Dancing in the Street' Became the Anthem for a Changing America runs 8.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.7 hours.
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Who narrates Ready for a Brand New Beat: How 'Dancing in the Street' Became the Anthem for a Changing America?
Ready for a Brand New Beat: How 'Dancing in the Street' Became the Anthem for a Changing America is narrated by Stephen Hoye.