Go-Go Museum and Café Collection

Collection — external hard drive: DIG_00030

Identifier: 225

Staff Only

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.

Dates

Creation: 2021

Creator

Check It Enterprises, LLC (Organization)
Hopkinson, Natalie (Person)
Moten, Ronald (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions to accessing this collection.

Conditions Governing Use

There are no known restrictions to use of this collection.

Biographical / Historical

The Go-Go Museum and Café is the culmination of decades of advocacy by musicians, scholars, and organizers. When cultural activist Ronald "Moe" Moten called for funding a Go-Go museum on January 6, 2020, hundreds of supporters contributed to an online crowdsourcing campaign to make the Museum a reality. Local radio station WPGC 95.5 hosted a 12-hour Go-Go radiothon at the Central Communications/MetroPCS store at the center of the DON'T MUTE DC movement that began in 2019 in the Shaw neighborhood.

The Go-Go Museum and Café provides a foundational introduction to Go-Go music and culture, a mix of funk, R and B, hip-hop, and Afro-Latin rhythms created in the 1970s by "Godfather of Go-Go" Chuck Brown and his Washington D.C. fans. The mission of the Museum is to document, preserve, and innovate Go-Go music. The Museum hosts live music and exhibitions in Southeast Washington, D.C., online, and off-site.

Extent

26 Gigabytes

270 Files

Language of Materials

English

Metadata Rights Declarations

License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Creative Commons license.

Additional Description

Custodial History

This collection was transferred to The People's Archive in June 2022.

Related Materials

101, Go-Go Music Collection
149, Craig Rosen and the Static Disruptors D.C. Groove Collection
180, DC Oral History Collaborative, Series 16: Anthology of Booty
180, DC Oral History Collaborative, Series 30: Transgender Histories of D.C. 199, Chip Py Go-Go Collection
211, Natalie Hopkinson Research Collection
230: Kip Lornell and Charles Stephenson oral history collection
dcpl_web0026, Go-Go (Web) Archive

Subjects

Topical

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Go-Go Museum and Café Collection
Subtitle: An inventory of the Go-Go Museum and Café Collection at DC Public Library
Author: Laura Farley
Date: 2022-10-19
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: English
Script of description: Latin
Language of description note: English