![]() ![]() They been playing that go-go there since before I was a human.” “I felt people needed to know about this because I couldn’t believe anybody would complain about the music, because we all love it. “I tweet about controversial things all the time, things that me and my friends talk about,” Bloomfield told ThinkProgress. residents - had been silenced, and urging them to complain. ![]() Sunday, informing her friends that t he go-go - the beating-heart soundtrack for many inner-city and black D.C. Unable to sleep, the 23-year-old senior at Howard University sent out a tweet about 2:30 a.m. and Florida Avenue.Ī corner store there had been ordered to silence the go-go music - a genre native to Washington and famous for its thumping rhythm and repetitive beats - that has been blaring from its exterior loudspeakers for years, following complaints from residents who had only recently moved into the neighborhood.īroomfield first became sad about the order, then angry. As they cruised through northwest Washington, D.C., one of her friends had mentioned the absence of go-go music at the intersection of 7th Street N.W. It was the wee hours of Sunday, and Julien Broomfield was still angry about a conversation she’d had with some friends the previous day. ![]()
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