Meaning Of The Word Doo-wop

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doo-wop in American English
a group singing style, esp. of the 1950s, involving a lead singer supported by a chorus, and, often, instruments with a strong, rhythmic beat
noun: 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 in British English
noun: rhythm-and-blues harmony vocalizing developed by unaccompanied street-corner groups in the US in the 1950s

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