Several American cities are identified with a kind of music. For example, New Orleans is known for jazz. Nashville claims country music, and Memphis calls itself the home of the blues. Washington D.C. is also known for a unique sound: go-go music. Go-go is often called the heartbeat of D.C. Most musicians and historians credit the birth of go-go music to Chuck Brown, a Washington D.C.-born musician who died in 2012. Brown and his band The Soul Searchers started their career playing mostly funk and rhythm-and-blues music. The songs got people up and dancing. But Brown did not like it when people left the dance floor at the end of a song. So he decided to keep a beat going on percussion instruments after the song was over. Over time, this ‘beat’ music became just as popular as the songs themselves, and led to the creation of “go-go music.” The music gets its name from how the music, like the beat, goes and goes, without stopping.
Title: Musicians Aim to Keep DC's Go-go Music Going
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1877/DC_gogo_music.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Musicians Aim to Keep DC's Go-go Music Going' data-article-id='2394'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='11417'>Several American cities are identified with a kind of music.</span> <span data-start-time='11417' data-end-time='16354'>For example, New Orleans is known for jazz.</span> <span data-start-time='16354' data-end-time='25729'>Nashville claims country music, and Memphis calls itself the home of the blues.</span> <span data-start-time='25729' data-end-time='41896'>Washington D.C. is also known for a unique sound: go-go music.</span> <span data-start-time='41896' data-end-time='47958'>Go-go is often called the heartbeat of D.C.</span> <span data-start-time='47958' data-end-time='63250'>Most musicians and historians credit the birth of go-go music to Chuck Brown, a Washington D.C.-born musician who died in 2012.</span> <span data-start-time='63250' data-end-time='73250'>Brown and his band The Soul Searchers started their career playing mostly funk and rhythm-and-blues music.</span> <span data-start-time='73250' data-end-time='77479'>The songs got people up and dancing.</span> <span data-start-time='77479' data-end-time='84396'>But Brown did not like it when people left the dance floor at the end of a song.</span> <span data-start-time='84396' data-end-time='92938'>So he decided to keep a beat going on percussion instruments after the song was over.</span> <span data-start-time='92938' data-end-time='104646'>Over time, this ‘beat’ music became just as popular as the songs themselves, and led to the creation of “go-go music.”</span> <span data-start-time='104646' data-end-time='113146'>The music gets its name from how the music, like the beat, goes and goes, without stopping.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1877/DC_gogo_music.png'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' 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