Content Description

The Go-Go Museum & Café and partners collected 11 oral histories, produced two go-go concerts, and organized a major conference on go-go: “Go-Go Preservation Week 2021” in collaboration with the Traditional Arts DC project at Howard University. The Go-Go-Preservation Week panel discussions, concerts, and oral history collections.

Abstract This interview took place in 2021 via ZOOM video recording software. Mr. Edwards spoke from his home in the Bay Area, California, about growing up in New Orleans Second Line parade culture, becoming a professional artist for the people as part of the Black Panther Party and as a designer for various nonprofit and commercial enterprises. He discusses his work developing Experience Unlimited Band’s logo and 1977 album cover, “Free Yourself,” as well as why marginalized people are so vulnerable...

Abstract This interview took place in 2021 via ZOOM video recording software. Mr. Edwards spoke from his home in the Bay Area, California, about growing up in New Orleans Second Line parade culture, becoming a professional artist for the people as part of the Black Panther Party and as a designer for various nonprofit and commercial enterprises. He discusses his work developing Experience Unlimited Band’s logo and 1977 album cover, “Free Yourself,” as well as why marginalized people are so vulnerable...

Scope and Contents

Collection consists of research materials including notes and field recordings, photographs, clippings from periodicals, and ephemera documenting go-go music and culture in the Washington, DC metropolitan area gathered by Hopkinson. The collection also includes material written and published by Hopkinson.