Seth Hurwitz

時は1962年、ニューヨークの一流ナイトクラブ、コパカバーナで用心棒を務めるトニー・リップは、ガサツで無学だが、腕っぷしとハッタリで家族や周囲に頼りにされていた。ある日、トニーは、黒人ピアニストの運転手としてスカウトされる。彼の名前はドクター・シャーリー、カーネギーホールを住処とし、ホワイトハウスでも演奏したほどの天才は、なぜか差別の色濃い南部での演奏ツアーを目論んでいた。二人は、〈黒人用旅行ガイド＝グリーンブック〉を頼りに、出発するのだが─。

"The Legend of Cool 'Disco' Dan" is the story of black Washington DC told from the perspective of Cool "Disco" Dan starting with his birth during the civil rights era and follows his life parallel with the rise of Go-Go music through the 1980s (which is the unheard but yet dominant urban music of DC) and also local DC politics with Marion Barry's rise and fall. Despite ending up homeless Cool "Disco" Dan used graffiti to escape the social problems D.C. had in the 1980s when things turned violent and became known as the Murder Capital of the United States. Cool "Disco" Dan ends up as a cult character of DC and his name becomes a symbol of survival during DC's most trying years.