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Go-Go Live : The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City, Hardback Book

Go-Go Live : The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City Hardback

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Go-go is the conga drum-inflected black popular music that emerged in Washington, D.C., during the 1970s.

The guitarist Chuck Brown, the "Godfather of Go-Go," created the music by mixing sounds borrowed from church and the blues with the funk and flavor that he picked up playing for a local Latino band.

Born in the inner city, amid the charred ruins of the 1968 race riots, go-go generated a distinct culture and an economy of independent, almost exclusively black-owned businesses that sold tickets to shows and recordings of live go-gos.

At the peak of its popularity, in the 1980s, go-go could be heard around the capital every night of the week, on college campuses and in crumbling historic theaters, hole-in-the-wall nightclubs, backyards, and city parks.

Go-Go Live is a social history of black Washington told through its go-go music and culture.

Encompassing dance moves, nightclubs, and fashion, as well as the voices of artists, fans, business owners, and politicians, Natalie Hopkinson's Washington-based narrative reflects the broader history of race in urban America in the second half of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first.

In the 1990s, the middle class that had left the city for the suburbs in the postwar years began to return.

Gentrification drove up property values and pushed go-go into D.C.'s suburbs.

The Chocolate City is in decline, but its heart, D.C.'s distinctive go-go musical culture, continues to beat.

On any given night, there's live go-go in the D.C. metro area.

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