Gogo was a type of francophone

Francophone

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 music that was popular in the 1960s in Quebec

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, Canada

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. It accompanied dancing that was characterised by lively, quick and irregular movements of the body and wide gestures of the arms. The words and music were often adapted from contemporary hits of pop music

Pop music

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 from the United States

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 (with or without permission and payment of royalties to the creators or rights-holders of the original music). The dance clubs “boîtes à gogo” that catered to it gave way to discothèques when the fashion for gogo gave way to disco

Disco

Disco is a genre of dance music. Disco acts charted high during the mid-1970s, and the genre's popularity peaked during the late 1970s. It had its roots in clubs that catered to African American, gay, psychedelic, and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and...

 at the beginning of the 1970s. In 1966, the Quebec singer Michèle Richard recorded a song titled "Les Bôites à Gogo", whose accompanying 16mm Scopitone

Scopitone

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 film illustrates both the dance style and the atmosphere in these clubs.

One of the subplots of the 2010 Canadian film Funkytown

Funkytown (film)

Funkytown is a 2011 Canadian drama film directed by Daniel Roby and written by Steve Galluccio.Set in Montreal during the disco era, the film revolves around the Starlight, a fictionalized version of Montreal's famed Lime Light discothèque...

involves how the rise of disco in Montreal

Montreal

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ended the fashion for gogo and the careers of gogo singers. (Duchesne, 2011)

Sample Recordings

• Manon, "Si vous connaissez quelque chose de pire qu'un vampire" [sound disc: analog 45 rpm.] , Montreal (Quebec): Jupiter, 1967.
• Marie-Sylvie “On retourne à l'école” [sound disc : analog 45 rpm.], Saint-Laurent (Quebec): Élite, 1970[?]
• Cy Cohen, Frank Gérald “Pas une place pour me garer!” [sound disc: analog 45 rpm.], Sherbrooke (Quebec): Succès Match, 1965[?]