doo-wop
a style of small-group vocal harmonizing, commercialized as a type of so-called street singing in the 1950s, in which words and nonsense syllables are chanted in rhythmic harmony to support the stylized melody of the lead singer.
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How to use doo-wop in a sentence
I used to sing just to do it, but then Art put together a doo-wop group.
The Stacks: The Neville Brothers Stake Their Claim as Bards of the Bayou | John Ed Bradley | April 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYou can hear his love for the doo wop of his youth in Velvets songs like “I Found a Reason” and “Candy Says.”
I knew a doo-wop group that sings in the subway and around the city, and I wanted to get them involved.
Doo-Wop ‘We Can’t Stop’: Behind the Ridiculously Good Miley Cyrus Cover | Kevin Fallon | September 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAmy Winehouse incorporated a lot of Motown and soul and doo-wop into her stuff, an updated version of it.
Doo-Wop ‘We Can’t Stop’: Behind the Ridiculously Good Miley Cyrus Cover | Kevin Fallon | September 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThis kind of situation happened over and over again in the big-band years and later during the doo-wop era.
British Dictionary definitions for doo-wop
/ (ˈduːˌwɒp) /
rhythm-and-blues harmony vocalizing developed by unaccompanied street-corner groups in the US in the 1950s
Origin of doo-wop
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