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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 conversation was the series finale and included citywide leaders in local politics, library, and philanthropy. The panel “broke news” about how the new Go-Go category in the Grammy’s was created by a local artist (who was on the panel), two days before this news was published in the Washington Post. The panel was moderated by Go-Go scholar and activist, Charles C. Stephenson, Jr. Joining him on the panel were Kokayi, the artist responsible for including Go-Go in the Grammy’s, Ward 6...