Cultural Life in a “Chocolate City”: A Review of Natalie Hopkinson’s Go-Go Live
Review In Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City journalist and educator Natalie Hopkinson uses go-go—the ultra-local style of African American popular music that has dominated metro Washington, DC, since the 1980s—as a window into the life of a “Chocolate City,” a phrase popularized by funk artist George Clinton to describe […]
Yard decorations, Glenwood Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia, 2004
Monkey Puzzle
Video Monkey Puzzle, 2008.
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
Introduction Introduced in a 1995 song by the Atlanta-based group Goodie Mob, the idea of the “Dirty South” spread quickly throughout the rap music subculture and industry, and by the early years of the twenty-first century moved into more general usage in a variety of contexts not directly related to rap. The concept of the […]