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

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 t...