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Go-Go Live
The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City
By Hopkinson, Natalie
- ISBN
- 9780822352206 9780822352112
- Publisher
- Duke Univ.
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Reviewed on July 1, 2012 | Arts and Humanities
Few people outside of Washington, DC, have heard of go-go, the city's homegrown brand of funk, marked by heavy percussion (predominately congas, more recently roto-toms), call and response, and live performance. Hopkinson (contributing editor, The Root; coauthor, with Natalie Y. Moore, Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation) explores the music that poet Thomas Sayers Ellis called...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
