doo-wop
[ doo-wop ]
/ ˈduˌwɒp /
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noun Popular Music.
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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Origin of doo-wop
Representing the chanted syllables
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British Dictionary definitions for doo-wop
doo-wop
/ (ˈduːˌwɒp) /
noun
rhythm-and-blues harmony vocalizing developed by unaccompanied street-corner groups in the US in the 1950s
Word Origin for doo-wop
C20: of imitative origin
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