Nancy Reagan put booze and Frank Sinatra back in the White House. jazzy, rhythm and cinderella http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8BCEF5D890ABB2D3&search_query=dc+music
background: highlife waning with poverty then merges with reggae and hip hop http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnlvdXR1YmUuY29tL3dhdGNoP3Y9V0NPcjhwdUMwaTA= go-go DC some Maasai jump on left in crowd and cinderella on stage, fast beat like Highlife. Supremes did a Maasai jump real high, wearing heels, for Chain Gang publicity. I first noticed it in church at Harvard-educated Sister Talley's in Rockville at her tentmeeting out back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSJ_NmeAH0Q I just spent a lot of time going through African music and dance vids and go-go is respectable. DC women need to go back to Africa for moves to keep up with these rhythms but the music is hot and so is Beat Feet compared to Africa hiphop slide moves. Some of those audiences are still neuro-linguistically arrested by empire rap winner-take-all, notmoving every day every body. SA Vomaseve Hippies(African Sekous grind dancing) and Freaks(danse Afrique!): The first hippies...danced to local BLACK R&B bands...in dives far removed from the fabled Sunset Strip – because, Carl Franzoni has said, “There were NO WHITE BANDS [in LA] yet,” and “There were no clubs on Sunset Boulevard”...Vito and the Freaks{AFRIQUES!}: Vito Paulekas, his wife Zsou and Karl Franzoni, the leaders of a group of about 35 dancers whose antics enlivened the Byrds early gigs...free-form dancing.....Byrds' Chris Hillman also credited the strange group with being at the forefront of the hippie movement: “Carl and all those guys were way ahead of everyone on hippiedom fashion.” Ray Manzarek of The Doors remembered them as well: “There were these guys named Carl and Vito who had a dance troupe of gypsy freaks(AFRIQUES!). They were let in for free, because they were these quintessential hippies, which was great for tourists...The first hippies...danced to local black R&B bands” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y4k670L1w8 go-go latino DC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLEApa0osdc DC street drummers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf-tvl38X6U yele, rouge et bleu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PxBGHjABnU capoeira "dance" near end -Bob D
