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.
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.
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As Washington D.C. continues to face gentrification, its new white residents have organized to kill the culture of Go-Go in the city, petitioning to have the music silenced and those that play it curfewed.
The Beat Don’t Stop gives the viewer a peek into how Black residents organized a worldwide protest, #Don’tMuteDC Movement, fight for the music that has been the soundtrack of Black D.C. for almost 60 years.
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As previously reported by theGrio.com, local politicians, musicians, influencers, and citizens banned together taking this fight to preserve Go-Go music to the hilt.
