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DC MUSIC HISTORY
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BLACK BROADWAY



Washington DC's U Street has been the center of the city's music scene for about a century. Most of the houses in the neighborhood were built between 1862-1900. In the early 1900's, The U Street corridor was the country's largest urban black community. After the Lincoln Theatre opened in 1921, and the Howard Theatre in 1926, the neighborhood became the the center of DC's legendary club scene. The strip has been called "Black Broadway" - a name coined by singer Pearl Bailey.
BLACK BROADWAY ON U  -  ECHOS OF AN ERA



THE STORY OF BLACK BROADWAY ON U BEFORE HARLEM  -  trailer


MORE ON BLACK BROADWAY....

SEE MORE HERE



GO-GO MUSIC

Go-go music is a funk sub genre that originated in Washington DC in the late 1960's and 1970's. The music continues to be a popular musical force unique to the DC area. 

WASHINGTON GO-GO



1989 GO-GO DOCUMENTARY  -  PART 1

PART 2
PART 3
PART 4

PART 5
PART 6



WASHINGTON DC GO-GO  -  1980's GERMAN DOCUMENTARY


BUSTIN'LOOSE
Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers
DA BUTT
E.U.
SMOKE
Northeast Groovers

SEE MORE     -     GO-GO MUSIC 1       GO-GO MUSIC 2: Old School


DC HARDCORE


In the late 1970's and early 1980's, Washington DC bands were hardcore punk pioneers, and DC had one of the earliest hardcore scenes in the United States.  

A HISTORY OF DC PUNK

DAVE GROHL
PUNK THE CAPITAL
BRIAN BAKER

SEE MORE DC HARDCORE HERE


MUSIC OF WASHINGTON DC
LIST OF WASHINGTON DC CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

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