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go-go
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Go-go is a subgenre of funk music with an emphasis on specific rhythmic patterns, and live audience call and response.
Key facts
- Music genre.name
- Go-go
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- Mid 1960s – late 1970s; Washington, D.C., United States
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- music genre
- Subclass of
- funk
- Country of origin
- United States
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- inception
- 1962-01-01
- partially coincident with
- go-go dancing
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Description
- Origins
- History
- 1980s
- 1990s–2000s
- 2010s
- 2020s
- See also
- References
- Further reading
Go-go is a subgenre of funk music with an emphasis on specific rhythmic patterns, and live audience call and response.
Go-go was originated by African-American musicians in Washington, D.C., during the mid-1960s to late-1970s. Go-go has limited popularity in other areas, but maintains a devoted audience in the Washington metropolitan area as a uniquely regional music style and was named the official music of Washington, D.C., in February 2020.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “go-go” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.