{"product_id":"go-go-live-the-musical-life-and-death-of-a-chocolate-city-9780822352112","title":"Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGo-Go Live\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatalie Hopkinson, a contributing editor of \u003ci\u003eTheRoot.com\u003c\/i\u003e, lectures at Georgetown University and directs the Future of the Arts and Society project as a fellow of the Interactivity Foundation. She is the author, with Natalie Y. Moore, of \u003ci\u003eDeconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation\u003c\/i\u003e. A former writer and editor at the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, Hopkinson has contributed to the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTheAtlantic.com\u003c\/i\u003e and done commentary for NPR and the BBC.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50912541344018,"sku":"9780822352112","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c943ae1b-4bfd-424a-a4ad-f895824ea7ce.jpg?v=1738773658","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/go-go-live-the-musical-life-and-death-of-a-chocolate-city-9780822352112","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}