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Producers explore how this music, now entering into its seventh decade, has become the undisputed soundtrack of Chocolate City&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;The Beat Dont Stop, airing on Father's Day.READ MORE:It can be said that music defines the spirit of a city and vice versa.New York City is the birthplace of Hip-Hop and Electro beats, and many of those styles birthed out of its gritty streets have shaped the way people think about East Coast urban music. New Orleans has Bounce music, which, for better or for worse, popularize twerking. G-Funk, a combination of Pure Funk and Gangsta Rap, is a West Coast creation, primarily based in its Los Angeles roots. Cities help give character to the cultural movement of certain music, either allowing the genre to spread or stay contained.This documentary helps explore the intersection between Washington D.C. as a location and Go-Go as another layer in the spectrum of Black music. One aspect that it includes is that Go-Go actually predates Hip-Hop and is indigenous to the 1970s Funk movement, drawing occasionally from other musical genres.&nbsp;READ MORE:&nbsp;Have you subscribed to&nbsp;&nbsp;“Dear Culture”? Download our newest episodes now!Share:

Producers explore how this music, now entering into its seventh decade, has become the undisputed soundtrack of Chocolate City&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;The Beat Dont Stop, airing on Father's Day.READ MORE:It can be said that music defines the spirit of a city and vice versa.New York City is the birthplace of Hip-Hop and Electro beats, and many of those styles birthed out of its gritty streets have shaped the way people think about East Coast urban music. New Orleans has Bounce music, which, for better or for worse, popularize twerking. G-Funk, a combination of Pure Funk and Gangsta Rap, is a...

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