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doo-wop

American  
[doo-wop] / ˈduˌwɒp /

noun

Popular Music.

  1. 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.

doo-wop British  
/ ˈduːˌwɒp /

noun

  1. rhythm-and-blues harmony vocalizing developed by unaccompanied street-corner groups in the US in the 1950s

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Etymology

Origin of doo-wop

Representing the chanted syllables

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