doo-wop

[ doo-wop ]

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

/ ˈduːˌwɒp /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of doo-wop¹

Representing the chanted syllables

Word History and Origins

Origin of doo-wop¹

C20: of imitative origin