Research

TRADITIONAL ARTS MAGAZINE

This inaugural youth-led publication and podcast series is a compilation of interviews by DC student journalists of photographers from around the world conducted from 2022-2024.

PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH

Greene, G. (2025) Bridging and Elevating Community Through Dance Communication: An Analysis of a Diaspora Dance Studio.

Jenkins, B. M. (2022). Doing Black Podcast Studies: Exploring the Black Oral Tradition and Critical Media Literacy in Alternative Media. (dissertation)

Hopkinson, N. (2021). Go-Go Drums, Murals, and Other Weapons in the War for Black Lives. Journal of American Folklore, 134(534), 482-491,538.

Hopkinson, N. (2020) Fluorescent Flags: Black Power, Publicity, and Counternarratives in Go-Go Street Posters in the 1980s, Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 13, Issue 3, September 2020, Pages 275–294.

DC Cultural Assets Mapping study presented by Dr. Natalie Hopkinson and Smithsonian Folklife curator Dr. Sojin Kim at the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities on Oct. 23, 2023. The scholars are publishing this research in a book chapter pending academic peer review called: “Crashing the Party: Mapping the Place of Go-Go in D.C.” PHOTO BY PATRICK REALIZA.

LECTURES

Hopkinson, N. (2024) “We Are the Archive: Go-Go, Art and Respect.” Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture. Library of Congress.

ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS 2019-Present

Don’t Mute DC: An Oral History (with Smithsonian Folklife)

Women in Music (with Smithsonian Folklife, DC Public Library, Go-Go Museum )

Streetwear/Fashion (with DC Folklife Network, Sycamore & Oak and the Go-Go Museum)

Mapping Dance (with DC Folklife Network) (Project Lead–Geneva Greene)

Mapping Carolina to DC Migrations (with DC Folklife Network) Project Lead, Dr. Bryan Jenkins)

EU @ 50 (with Howard University and the Go-Go Museum)

Pieces of Me: Music, Memory and Club Photography. (with Humanities DC and the Go-Go Museum )

TADC Digital Oral History Institute 2021 (with GC Digital Scholarship Lab @ CUNY Graduate School).

“Black in Piscataway Land” Working paper includes interviews and a bibliography of sources on Indigenous DC history by the folklorist Camila Bryce-Laporte.