Doo Wop

El Doo Wop es un estilo vocal de música nacido de la unión de los géneros Rhythm and Blues y gospel. Se desarrolló en comunidades afroamericanas de los Estados Unidos durante los años 40 y alcanzó su mayor popularidad entre los 50 y los 60. Surgió de las calles de ciudades industriales del noroeste de la región medioeste de este país: New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore y Pittsburgh, en donde los muchachos se reunían llevando a cabo interpretaciones.

Su sonido armónico de voces entrelazadas que incorporaban elementos de Rhythm and Blues, Jazz, Swing y Gospel, consistieron en el modelo que le dio formato al Rock and Roll.

The name Doo Wop is given to a style of vocal-based Rhythm and Blues music that developed inAfrican American communities in the 1940s and achieved mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. It emerged from New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark,Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and areas of greater Los Angeles including El Monte and Compton. Built upon vocal harmony, doo-wop was one of the most mainstream, pop-oriented R&B styles of the 1950s and 1960s.

As a musical genre, Doo Wop is a type of vocal group harmony with the musical qualities of many vocal parts, nonsense syllables, a simple beat, little or no instrumentation, and simple music and lyrics. It is ensemble singing with single artists appearing with a backing group. Solo billing usually implies that the individual is more prominent in the musical arrangement.

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