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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

How The Washington D.C. Children's Foot Stomping "Chocolate City" Traveled To Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Part IV [2025 Complete Reprint]

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part IV of a four part pancocojams series about the African American term "chocolate city".

This post presents an example of a foot stomping cheer called "Chocolate City" which my daughter Tazi Hughes collected at a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania summer camp in 1992 from a Washington D. C. girl who was visiting her cousins in Pittsburgh. This post is an excerpt of a 2016 pancocojams post entitled "How I Started Collecting Examples Of African American Foot Stomping Cheers" https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/when-i-started-collecting-examples-of.html .

This post presents the percentages of Black people in 67 cities in the United States that have a population of over 100,000 people. (according to the United States Census Bureau, 2020 census). These cities can be considered "chocolate cities" based on an expanded definition of that term which began around the mid 20th century as a nickname for Washington, D.C.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-parliaments-chocolate-city-1975.html for Part I of this pancocojams series. That post showcases a YouTube sound file of the Parliament's 1975 Funk record "Chocolate City". Information about the Parliaments and their "Chocolate City" album & single is included in this post. Lyrics for the parliaments' record "Chocolate City" are also included in this pancocojams post along with some explanations of some of those lyrics.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/11/youtube-commenters-write-about-which.html
for Part II of this pancocojams series. This post showcases a sound file of the Parliament's Funk 1975 record "Chocolate City" and presents selected comments from several YouTube discussion threads of that record. Most of those comments refer to United States cities that were considered "chocolate city in the 1970s and/or now.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2022/11/united-states-top-chocolate-cities.html for Part III of this pancocojams series. That post presents the percentages of Black people in 67 cities in the United States that have a population of over 100,000 people. (according to the United States Census Bureau, 2020 census). These cities can be considered "chocolate cities" based on an expanded definition of that term which began around the mid 20th century as a nickname for Washington, D.C.

The content of this post is presented for folkloric and recreational purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to the unknown person/s who composed this cheer, thanks to all those who contributed this foot stomping cheer, and thanks to Tazi Hughes for collecting this foot stomping cheer.
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This is a complete reprint of this 2022 pancocojams post. No comments have been posted to the discussion thread for that post as of August 12, 2025.

I was motivated to reprint this post in large part because of Trump's announcement on August 11, 2025 that he was federalizing the Washington D.C. national guard.

Click https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/11/us/trump-news "Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police".

Also, click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/08/videos-of-washington-dc-protests-august.html for the pancocojams post "Videos Of Washington DC Protests August 11 & 12, 2025 (After Trump Announces That He'll Seize Control Of D.C.'s Police And Will Deploy That City's National Guard)".

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE

This excerpt focuses on the "Chocolate City" cheer. "Chocolate City" is an example of a foot stomping cheer that a visitor from one city in the United States brought to another city in that country and -at least for a short time-was passed on to other girls after its initial introduction,

I first became aware of the foot stomping cheer "Chocolate City" when my daughter collected an example of that cheer in 1992 from school age Black girls who attended Lillian Taylor camp in Valencia, Pennsylvania. Lillian Taylor camp sessions were sponsored by Kingsley Association, a non-profit community organization that is still based in the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. However, Lillian Taylor camp closed in 2006.

Independent of my daughter Tazi, I later collected the exact same example of "Chocolate City" in 1999 from two Black girls who attended Fort Pitt elementary school in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania neighborhood of Garfield. Garfield is located very near the much larger Pittsburgh neighborhood of East Liberty where Kingsley Association is located.

My daughter was a Fort Pitt teacher during the time that I collected the "Chocolate City" foot stomping cheer and other foot stomping cheers from Fort Pitt students. However, when I asked her, my daughter told me that she hadn't taught "Chocolate City" to anyone at Fort Pitt school or anywhere else. I therefore assume that these Fort Pitt students learned this cheer from a sibling or someone else who attended that 1992 Lillian Taylor Camp summer session seven years before.

I haven't come across any other example of the "Chocolate City" foot stomping cheer other than the one that is given in this pancocojams post.

If you remember this cheer, please share the version you remember with demographic information (particularly city/state and decade you remember it) in the comment section of this post. Thanks!

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EXCERPT OF "HOW I STARTED COLLECTING EXAMPLES OF (MOSTLY) AFRICAN AMERICAN FOOT STOMPING CHEERS
by Azizi Powell, September 8, 2016, https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/09/when-i-started-collecting-examples-of.html

Cassette Taping My Daughter's Cheers- mid 1980s

I first became aware of what I now called foot stomping cheers around 1985 when I observed my then twelve year old daughter and her girlfriends of similar ages chanting cheers while doing choreographed routines. I knew that my sisters, my girlfriends, and I hadn't performed cheers like that when we were children and pre-teens. And since I hadn't seen or heard those types of cheers being performed before, I wondered if this was a new form of children's recreational activity. Since I considered (and still consider) myself as an amateur community folklorist, I began recording and writing down the words to those cheers.

In those days I used the term "sidewalk cheers" to refer to the subset of children's cheerleader cheers that I now call "foot stomping cheers". Most of the "sidewalk cheers" that I collected in the mid 1980s were from my daughter Tazi [pronunciation: TAH-zee] Powell (now Hughes).

Around 1992 I asked Tazi to show me how she and her girlfriends "did" foot stomping cheers. As she demonstrated the foot stomping and alternate hand claps (or body pats), I audio recorded those performances on a cassette tape. Although I recall transcribing some portions of that tape, I misplaced those transcriptions. In 1996 I found that cassette tape, and another cheer cassette tape and I transcribed both of those tapes.

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Lillian Taylor Camp: 1989-1992 [edited Nov. 11, 2022]
In the summers of 1989 - 1992 when she was still in college, my daughter Tazi served as a Kingsley Association counselor for its Lillian Taylor Camp summer sessions. Lillian Taylor Camp was a camp for children ages 5-12 years of age. The camp grounds were outside of Pittsburgh in Valencia, Pennsylvania. Most of the boys and girls who attended Kingsley Association sponsored sessions of Lillian Taylor camp were from the East End neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, including the mostly Black working class neighborhoods of East Liberty and Garfield. My daughter and I have lived in the neighborhood of East Liberty since 1978.

Kingsley Association is still located in the neighborhood of East Liberty. During the time that I directly collected foot stomping cheers My daughter taught at Fort Pitt Elementary School, and I was a substitute teacher there for a short time. Fort Pitt Elementary School closed in 2011.

In 1992 Tazi was that camp's "cheer coach". At the end of each four week segment of that camp, each group had to participate in a camp show for the entire camp, their parents, and other guests. Most of the girl groups chose to perform an example of a foot stomping cheer. In her role as cheer coach, Tazi either taught those groups foot stomping cheers from the mid 1980s or helped them decide on a cheer to perform that a member or some members of their group already knew. She would then help the members of each group learn the words to their cheer and also supervise them while they practiced the cheer's foot stomping routine (as all members of the group had to perform together, and not just those who were "good at keeping on beat").

In her role as cheer coach, Tazi heard some of the same exact cheers that she and her girlfriends did in the mid 1980s. She also learned different versions of those old cheers. And she learned cheers that were completely new to her. Knowing about my interest in what I then called "sidewalk cheers", Tazi received permission to audio tape some examples of those cheers. She then played that cassette tape for me, and demonstrated those cheers' foot stomping/hand clapping routines. I also attended one camp show and saw the campers perform some of those cheers. Although I believe that I recorded that tape in 1992, I didn't transcribe those cheers from that tape until 1996.

Having campers from various Pittsburgh neighborhoods was one way that cheers were spread from one Pittsburgh community to another. In addition, campers learned examples of cheers that came from other cities. In 1992 one of the girls who attended Lillian Taylor Camp was from Washington, D.C. and was visiting her Pittsburgh cousin. That's how the cheer "Chocolate City" found its way into my cheer collection:

CHOCOLATE CITY*
All: Chock-let City.
Chock chock-let City.
Chock-let City.
Chock Chock-let City.
Soloist #1: My name is [girl says her name or nickname]
And I'm walkin.
Group: She's walkin.
Soloist #1: I'm talkin.
Group: She's talkin.
Soloist #1: I'M TALKIN TO [girls stop using first step beat]
All the boys in Chock-let City [begin new faster tempo step beat]
Get down to the nitty gritty.
Long time no see.
Sexy as I wanna be.
Some hittin me high.
Some hittin me low.
Some hittin me on my-
Don't ask what.
Group: What?
Soloist #1: My b-u-tt butt
That's what.

Repeat from the beginning with the next soloist who says her name or nickname. Continue this pattern until every girl in the group has had one chance as the soloist with this cheer.
-T.M.P, tape recording of African American girl campers, 1992.(Lillian Taylor Camp)
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* "Chocolate City" is the nickname for "Washington, D.C."
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Tazi told me that some campers wanted to say "Pittsburgh City" instead of "Chocolate City". But they were out voted.

Note that I collected the exact same words for "Chocolate City" in 1999 from Chatauqua (African American female, 10 year old) & Ralene (African American female, 12 years old , both from the Garfield section of Pittsburgh, PA, (at Fort Pitt School); Fort Pitt School was in the Garfield section of Pittsburgh. Garfield is very near the East Liberty neighborhood were my family lived (and where I still live). Furthermore, the majority of Lillian Taylor campers were from East Liberty as that was (and still is) where Kingsley Association, the organization that owned that camp, was/is based.

My daughter Tazi was a teacher at Fort Pitt Elementary school in 1999 when I collected this cheer. I wasn't a substitute teacher at that school until 2007 and we didn't begin Fort Pitt's Alafia Children's Ensemble program* until 2003. In any event, Tazi indicated that she didn't teach anyone at Fort Pitt School that "Chocolate City" cheer and she was surprised to learn that any students in that school knew that cheer. I have never read or heard that cheer anywhere else and I think it's very likely that those two girls learned "Chocolate City" from someone who attended that particular Lillian Taylor camp session, or from someone who learned that cheer from an attendee of that 1992 camp session."
-end of 2016 excerpt-
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*Alafia Children's Ensemble (Braddock, Pennsylvania): 2002 - 2004 was one of the ways that I collected foot stomping cheers. I wrote this portion of this post in 2016 for the pancocojams "How I Started Collecting Foot Stomping Cheers" post:
"From around 2002 until around the end of 2004, I received Pittsburgh multicultural Initiative grants to organize and co-led (with my daughter Tazi Powell) a children's group that I named "Alafia Children's Ensemble". This first "chapter" of Alafia Children's Ensemble was located in Braddock, Pennsylvania, Braddock is about forty minutes from my home in Pittsburgh. Braddock's Alafia sessions were held for one and a half hour, one evening a week and consisted of two groups that shared a beginning assembly and an ending assembly. One group learned and performed traditional and adapted African American game songs. Members of this group were encouraged to share examples of rhymes and cheers that they knew with the possibility that those examples would become part of the group's performance repertoire. Members of Braddock's Alafia game song & cheers component were mostly African American and mostly girls ages 5-12 years. The other half of Braddock's Alafia group consisted of a beginners' djembe (African drum) class. Although it wasn't designed that way, every member of that component were African American boys between the ages of 8-12 years."...

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Do you remember the "Chocolate City" foot stomping cheer?
If so, please share the words to the version of that cheer that you remember in the comment section below. Also, please include demographic information such as when [year or decade] you first chanted or heard this cheer, where (city/state) you lived when you first chanted or heard that cheer, and any other information (such as your race and gender and the age you were) when you first learned or heard that cheer.) Thanks!.

This concludes Part IV of this pancocojams series.

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Friday, November 11, 2022

How The Washington D.C. Children's Foot Stomping "Chocolate City" Traveled To Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Part IV

Edited by Azizi Powell

Latest Update- Augsut 12, 2025 [correction of dates for school and camp closings]

This is Part IV of a four part pancocojams series about the African American term "chocolate city".

The content of this post is presented for folkloric and recreational purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to the unknown person/s who composed this cheer, thanks to all those who contributed this foot stomping cheer, and thanks to Tazi Hughes for collecting this foot stomping cheer.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2025/08/how-washington-dc-childrens-foot.html for a complete reprint of this post. As of August 12, 2025, there are three comments (posted by me) in that post's discussion thread.

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
Although the title of the 2016 pancocojams post that I am excerpting is "How I started collecting examples of African American Foot Stomping Cheers", that post also includes examples of cheers that my daughter Tazi Hughes (then TMP) shared with me and collected without me being present.

This excerpt focuses on the "Chocolate City" cheer. "Chocolate City" is an example of a foot stomping cheer that was disseminated from one city in the United States to another by a visitor to that city, and -at least for a short time-was passed on to other girls after its initial introduction,

Independent of my daughter Tazi, I later collected the exact same example of "Chocolate City" in 1999 from two Black girls who attended Fort Pitt elementary school in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania neighborhood of Garfield. Garfield is located very near the much larger Pittsburgh neighborhood of East Liberty where Kingsley Association is located.

My daughter was a Fort Pitt teacher during the time that I collected the "Chocolate City" foot stomping cheer and other foot stomping cheers from Fort Pitt students. However, when I asked her, my daughter told me that she hadn't taught "Chocolate City" to anyone at Fort Pitt school or anywhere else. I therefore assume that these Fort Pitt students learned this cheer from a sibling or someone else who attended that 1992 Lillian Taylor Camp summer session seven years before.

I haven't come across any other example of the "Chocolate City" foot stomping cheer other than the one that is given in this pancocojams post. If you remember this cheer, please share the version you remember with demographic information (particularly city/state and decade you remember it) in the comment section of this post. Thanks!

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Lillian Taylor Camp: 1989-1992 [edited Nov. 11, 2022]
In the summers of 1989 - 1992 when she was still in college, my daughter Tazi served as a Kingsley Association counselor for its Lillian Taylor Camp summer sessions. Lillian Taylor Camp was a camp for children ages 5-12 years of age. The camp grounds were outside of Pittsburgh in Valencia, Pennsylvania. Most of the boys and girls who attended Kingsley Association sponsored sessions of Lillian Taylor camp were from the East End neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, including the mostly Black working class neighborhoods of East Liberty and Garfield. My daughter and I have lived in the neighborhood of East Liberty since 1978.

Kingsley Association is still located in the neighborhood of East Liberty. During the time that I directly collected foot stomping cheers My daughter taught at Fort Pitt Elementary School, and I was a substitute teacher there for a short time. Fort Pitt Elementary School closed in 2011.

In 1992 part of Tazi's responsibilities was to serve as the camp's "cheer coach". At the end of each four week segment of that camp, each group had to participate in a camp show for the entire camp, their parents, and other guests. Most of the girl groups chose to perform an example of a foot stomping cheer. In her role as cheer coach, Tazi either taught those groups foot stomping cheers from the mid 1980s or helped them decide on a cheer to perform that a member or some members of their group already knew. She would then help the members of each group learn the words to their cheer and also supervise them while they practiced the cheer's foot stomping routine (as all members of the group had to perform together, and not just those who were "good at keeping on beat").

In her role as cheer coach, Tazi heard some of the same exact cheers that she and her girlfriends did in the mid 1980s. She also learned different versions of those old cheers. And she learned cheers that were completely new to her. Knowing about my interest in what I then called "sidewalk cheers", Tazi received permission to audio tape some examples of those cheers. She then played that cassette tape for me, and demonstrated those cheers' foot stomping/hand clapping routines. I also attended one camp show and saw the campers perform some of those cheers. Although I believe that I recorded that tape in 1992, I didn't transcribe those cheers from that tape until 1996.

Having campers from various Pittsburgh neighborhoods was one way that cheers were spread from one Pittsburgh community to another. In addition, campers learned examples of cheers that came from other cities. In 1992 one of the girls who attended Lillian Taylor Camp was from Washington, D.C. and was visiting her Pittsburgh cousin. That's how the cheer "Chocolate City" found its way into my cheer collection:

CHOCOLATE CITY*
All: Chock-let City.
Chock chock-let City.
Chock-let City.
Chock Chock-let City.
Soloist #1: My name is [girl says her name or nickname]
And I'm walkin.
Group: She's walkin.
Soloist #1: I'm talkin.
Group: She's talkin.
Soloist #1: I'M TALKIN TO [girls stop using first step beat]
All the boys in Chock-let City [begin new faster tempo step beat]
Get down to the nitty gritty.
Long time no see.
Sexy as I wanna be.
Some hittin me high.
Some hittin me low.
Some hittin me on my-
Don't ask what.
Group: What?
Soloist #1: My b-u-tt butt
That's what.

Repeat from the beginning with the next soloist who says her name or nickname. Continue this pattern until every girl in the group has had one chance as the soloist with this cheer.
-T.M.P, tape recording of African American girl campers, 1992.(Lillian Taylor Camp)
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* "Chocolate City" is the nickname for "Washington, D.C."
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Tazi told me that some campers wanted to say "Pittsburgh City" instead of "Chocolate City". But they were out voted.

Note that I collected the exact same words for "Chocolate City" in 1999 from Chatauqua (African American female, 10 year old) & Ralene (African American female, 12 years old , both from the Garfield section of Pittsburgh, PA, (at Fort Pitt School); Fort Pitt School was in the Garfield section of Pittsburgh. Garfield is very near the East Liberty neighborhood were my family lived (and where I still live). Furthermore, the majority of Lillian Taylor campers were from East Liberty as that was (and still is) where Kingsley Association, the organization that owned that camp, was/is based.

My daughter Tazi was a teacher at Fort Pitt Elementary school in 1999 when I collected this cheer. I wasn't a substitute teacher at that school until 2007 and we didn't begin Fort Pitt's Alafia Children's Ensemble program* until 2003. In any event, Tazi indicated that she didn't teach anyone at Fort Pitt School that "Chocolate City" cheer and she was surprised to learn that any students in that school knew that cheer. I have never read or heard that cheer anywhere else and I think it's very likely that those two girls learned "Chocolate City" from someone who attended that particular Lillian Taylor camp session, or from someone who learned that cheer from an attendee of that 1992 camp session."
-end of 2016 excerpt-
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*Alafia Children's Ensemble (Braddock, Pennsylvania): 2002 - 2004 was one of the ways that I collected foot stomping cheers. I wrote this portion of this post in 2016 for the pancocojams "How I Started Collecting Foot Stomping Cheers" post:
"From around 2002 until around the end of 2004, I received Pittsburgh multicultural Initiative grants to organize and co-led (with my daughter Tazi Powell) a children's group that I named "Alafia Children's Ensemble". This first "chapter" of Alafia Children's Ensemble was located in Braddock, Pennsylvania, Braddock is about forty minutes from my home in Pittsburgh. Braddock's Alafia sessions were held for one and a half hour, one evening a week and consisted of two groups that shared a beginning assembly and an ending assembly. One group learned and performed traditional and adapted African American game songs. Members of this group were encouraged to share examples of rhymes and cheers that they knew with the possibility that those examples would become part of the group's performance repertoire. Members of Braddock's Alafia game song & cheers component were mostly African American and mostly girls ages 5-12 years. The other half of Braddock's Alafia group consisted of a beginners' djembe (African drum) class. Although it wasn't designed that way, every member of that component were African American boys between the ages of 8-12 years."...

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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Washington, D.C.'s Go Go Music

Written by Azizi Powell

Among African Americans in the 1970s to date, Washington, D.C.'s nickname was "Chocolate City". D.C. was given that name because so many Black folks lived there. Back in 1970, that city peaked at 71 percent Black. However, "Washington’s black population slipped below 50 percent this year [2011], possibly in February, about 51 years after it gained a majority, according to an estimate by William Frey, the senior demographer at the Brookings Institution… http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/us/18dc.html?pagewanted=all. It will be interesting to see how long D.C. retains the "Chocolate City" nickname in the face of its significantly changing demographics.

Many online articles & blog comments cite the influx of White people from the suburbs back to the city and the resulting cost of property, and the rise of property taxes due to gentrification as the reasons for Washington, D.C.'s decreased Black population. For those interested in that subject, in addition to the article linked above, I highly recommend reading
"On The Rapid Gentrification of DC" by Latoya Peterson, July 19, 2011 http://www.racialicious.com/2011/07/19/on-the-rapid-gentrification-of-dc/

Rather than looking at the causes & consequences of D. C.'s gentrification, this post focuses on "Go Go music" - a sub-genre of African American music that originated in predominately Black Washington D.C. and still remains centered in Washington, D.C. area.

From http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1167 The Beat!
Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C. by Kip Lornell
and Charles C. Stephenson, Jr:

The Beat! was the first book to explore the musical, social, and cultural phenomenon of go-go music. In this new edition, updated by a substantial chapter on the current scene, authors Kip Lornell and Charles C. Stephenson, Jr., place go-go within black popular music made since the middle 1970s--a period during which hip-hop has predominated. This styling reflects the District's African American heritage. Its super-charged drumming and vocal combinations of hip-hop, funk, and soul evolved and still thrive on the streets of Washington, D.C., and in neighboring Prince George's County, making it the most geographically compact form of popular music.

Go-go--the only musical form indigenous to Washington, D.C.--features a highly syncopated, nonstop beat and vocals that are spoken as well as sung. The book chronicles its development and ongoing popularity, focusing on many of its key figures and institutions, including established acts such as Chuck Brown (the Godfather of Go-Go), Experience Unlimited, Rare Essence, and Trouble Funk...

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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-go:

Go-go is a blend of funk, rhythm and blues, and early hip-hop, with a focus on lo-fi percussion instruments and funk-style jamming in place of dance tracks, although some sampling is used. As such, it is primarily a dance hall music with an emphasis on live audience call and response. Go-go rhythms are also incorporated into street percussion...

There is generally little familiarity with go-go music outside of the D.C. Metro area, which includes the District of Columbia and the city's outlying Maryland and Northern Virginia suburbs. Consequently, the relatively little commercial success (by industry standards) go-go bands have enjoyed has largely been a product of the genre's following in this geographic region. Nevertheless, the style continues to evolve.

As to the source of the name "Go Go", the authors of that Wikipedia page indicates that "In the mid-1960s, "go-go" was the word for a music club in the local African American community, as in the common phrase at the time "going to a go-go".

http://gogobeat.com and http://www.dcgogoparadise.com/ are online resources for information about and bookings for go-go bands. go go music. gogobeat.com describes itself as a "Directory of Go-Go Music in Washington DC, MD [Maryland] and VA.[Virginia]". It's my belief that go-go music strongly influenced the creation of two other African American performance styles in that same area, and in a contiguous area during that same mid 1970s period. Those two performance styles are "Stomp and Shake" cheerleading (whose beginnings I've traced to the Virginia and North Carolina areas) and "foot stomping cheers" (whose earliest documented recording is of Washington D.C. schoolgirls in 1976). Both Stomp and Shake cheerleading and foot stomping cheers owe a lot of their performance styles to the African American art of university based Black Greek lettered fraternity & sorority steppin. Numerous predominately Black universities are found in the Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina areas. And my recollections as a member of a Black Greek lettered sorority and a fan of step shows is that the mid 1970s & early 1980s was when step shows first became prominent on Black campuses and in Black communities. I don't think that it's a coincidence that all of these Black performances arts originated or grew in influence in the same geographical areas and at the same time as go go music. It seems to me that scholarly research of any of the above mentioned African American performance arts should investigate the likely influence of go-go music on the creation & the development of those heavily percussive, crowd participation encouraging art forms.

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Here are two YouTube examples of Go Go music:

Chuck Brown And The Soul Searchers ‎– Bustin' Loose 1979

TT V-rus 1138, Published on Jun 25, 2016
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The video entitled "CHUCK BROWN "GOGO SWING,MIDNIGHT SUN,MOODY'S MOOD" @ 930 CLUB" which was initially showcased here is no longer available. Here are three comments from this video's viewer comment thread:

I live in delaware an area that has no idea what go-go music is. Still after all these yrs it's makes me dance..DC/VA stand up for chuck!...ps BET, VH-1, why isn't this getting an award???.
-denji31; 2011

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@denji31 Chuck has had many awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and things like that. He even has a street named after him on near GA ave in DC. He has gotten tons of recognition.
-CALICOTV301 ; 2011

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REAL MUSIC AT ITS BEST LIVE INSTRUMENTS REAL TALENT. I WAS STATIONED AT FORT LEE ,VIRGINIA BACK IN THE DAY AND I WAS FORMERLY INTRODUCED TO THE GREAT GO GO SOUND!!!! YOU CAN DANCE AND GROOVE OFF THIS ALL DAY AND NIGHT!!! KEEP GO GO ALIVE!!!
-XMAN4708; 2011

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Rare Essence Chocolate City Reunion (2011) #2

Uploaded by PyChip on Jul 8, 2011

Rare Essence plays at The Chocolate City Reunion
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Here's a comment from that video's viewer comment thread:

GO-GO IS STILL ALIVE!!!!!!!!!! Horn Section, Frontline Dance moves, Crowd participation, & most importantly CONGOS!!!! The only thing missing is the $10-$15 shows that went a hour & half per set!

(If you were BORN anywhere in the 90's you probrably dont understand what I'm talking about)
-Draydayz ; 2011

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