Gaining popularity in the 1950s and reaching peak success in the 1960s, doo-wop lives on in its influence on many other genres, most notably, R&B. There’s something very exciting about finding new life for doo-wop music hip hop and trap music; a mairrage of decades. Two genres that lean so heavily on collaboration coming together, it’s a beautiful thing to see.
Doo-wop is a genre of rhythm and blues music originated in the 1940s by African American youth, mainly in large US cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, and Washington, DC. It features vocal group harmony that carries an engaging melodic line to a simple beat with little or no instrumentation. Lyrics are simple and usually about love, sung by a lead vocal over background vocals of repeated nonsense syllables. The bridge often features a melodramatically heartfelt recitative addressed to the beloved.
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