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

Name: Go-Go Live The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City
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ISBN: 9780822352112

ISBN-10: 0822352117

ISBN-13: 9780822352112

Edition: 2012

Authors: Natalie Hopkinson

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In the late 1960s and 1970s, the flight of the middle class left majority-black cities in its wake. Products of segregation, Chocolate Cities such as Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Detroit, and Newark, were also hotbeds of African American cultural innovation. Since 2000, the demographic trend has reversed; urban gentrification has led to the decline of the Chocolate City. InGo-Go Live, Natalie Hopkinson recounts the social history of black Washington through its go-go music scene, the cultural manifestation of the Chocolate City. A Washington-area phenomenon born in the mid-1970s, go-go is a form of black popular music distinguished by its beat of conga drums and endless layers of…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 5/22/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



A Black Body Politic



Club U



What's Happening



Call and Response


Gallery



The Archive



The Boondocks



Redemption Song



Mr. Obama's Washington, B.C.



Roll Call, 1986


Notes


Bibliography


Index