{"product_id":"9780822395201","title":"TEST1 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124385300720,"sku":"9780822395201","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780822395201_p0.jpg?v=1763746287","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822395201","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}