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Malik Edwards interview, 2021-06-07

 Item
Identifier: 225_01_GoGoMusicCafe_011.mp4

Content Description

From the Collection:

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.

Dates

  • Creation: 2021-06-07

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Extent

From the Collection: 26 Gigabytes

From the Collection: 270 Files

Language of Materials

English

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 to drug culture, and DC’s art scene in the 1970s and 1980s as AfriCobra and other movements.

Repository Details

Part of the The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library Repository

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