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Lawrence Pitilli

Doo-Wop Acappella

2016

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8 Doo-Wop Acappella and Popular Culture S. 149-164

„… doo-wop acappella’s influence in film is foundin A Bronx Tale, a 1993 coming-of-age crime drama set in New …” „… shy studentsby teaching them how to harmonize and sing doo-wop songs acappella.Valuable life lessons …” „… 1498DOO-WOP ACAPPELLA ANDPOPULAR CULTUREMy baby loves the Western movies.—“Western Movies,” the …”

6 Doo-Wop Acappella as Folk Art, Folk Music, and Performance Art S. 115-128

„… 1156DOO-WOP ACAPPELLA AS FOLK ART,FOLK MUSIC, AND PERFORMANCE ARTAcappella with my friends …” „… nowincludes doo-wop acappella as folk art. We can validate this assertionwhen we consider folk art as that …” „… mi-norities in developed societies. Doo-wop acappella was practiced bylower-to-middle-class urban teenagers …”

1 History in the Making S. 1-38

„… distinctive and unique musical genre—doo-wop acappella—but also gave validity to the magic of the …” „… its ancestralform.2 Doo-wop acappella has its ancestral roots in fifteenth-centuryreligious music and …” „… acappella reflects one basic truth:the impact of legacy. The doo-wop singers on the urban street cornersowe …”

Preface

„… DOO-WOP ACAPPELLADOO-WOP ACAPPELLAA STORY OF STREET CORNERS,ECHOES, AND THREE-PARTHARMONIESLawrence …” „… history of doo-wop acappella.In addition to my love for this genre, my rationale for writing thisbook is …” „… , Lawrence.Title: Doo-wop acappella : a story of street corners, echoes, and three-part harmonies …”

11 Where Do We Go from Here—or—Where Have We Been Going? S. 191-200

„… forpercussive support. They do, nevertheless, sing acappella, keepingthose glorious doo-wop oldies but goodies …” „… “rock” and “acappella.” In addition to doo-wop, thegroup sings original vocal music and covers of rock …” „… contempo-rary doo-wop acappella groups too numerous to mention. I will list andbriefly describe several groups …”

10 Those Oldies But Goodies S. 179-190

„… explained that if he could put togetherthe ideal doo-wop group (acappella or otherwise), he would “put …” „… ” acappella was like walking intothe doo-wop-acappella candy store. It had everything to offer in termsof …” „… of all of those street-corner serenaders. The vastmajority of the doo-wop-acappella community in the …”

5 From Street Corners to Vinyl S. 95-114

„… YOU MAKE A LIVING SINGING ANDPRODUCING DOO-WOP ACAPPELLA?As the Brill Building was the epicenter of …” „… DriftersCYLINDERS, DISCS, AND AN EMERGING MARKETIt is ironic to note that doo-wop acappella, an autonomous and …” „… labels) catalogs.However, the doo-wop-acappella record business did not get absorbedinto these huge …”

Index S. 215-222

„… origins of doo-wop acappellaINDEX 217doo-wop music: characteristics of, 28–29;end of, 32–33; interracial …” „… , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 2Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 120Hispanics: doo-wop acappella’s legacy …” „… BanūMūsā brothers, 95Barbershop Harmony Society, 10barbershop music: about, 8–10; doo-wop-acappella origins …”

9 Why the Persuasions Matter S. 165-178

„… , Acappella. Zappa, who had an appreciation for soul,CHAPTER 9166rhythm and blues, and doo-wop street-corner …” „… craft of street-corner acappella singing.EXEMPLARSIf a doo-wop acappella group has a good lead singer …” „… CONTRARIANSThe vast majority of acappella groups have self-exiled to one genre, thatis, doo-wop. Yes, the …”

2 Harmony on an Urban Stage S. 39-54

„… Moment.”USHERING IN A NEW ERASantiago and Dunham perhaps best express doo-wop acappella’s contri-bution to racial …” „… YorkCity.—“The Boy from New York City,” the Ad LibsAH . . . YOUTH!Doo-wop acappella was an urban- and …” „… mixed. Doo-wop, both acap-pella and instrumentally accompanied, has its roots in the black culturalidiom …”

3 Nonsense Syllables, Echoes, and the Sweet Science of It All S. 55-76

„… and oo.While doo-wop acappella may seem a strange realm to explore loga-tomes, it offers an excellent …” „… groups,particularly the doo-wop acappella groups, as they swayed in unisonsnapping their fingers to the rhythm and …” „… impactedthose halcyon days of doo-wop acappella as we now consider the indi-vidual sounds themselves and their …”

Bibliography S. 209-214

„… /hispanic-contribution-to-doo-wop-abe.html.Acapella Soul’s website. Accessed April 28, 2015. http://acappellasoul.com/html/about.php.“A Cappella …” „… ofBarbershop Harmony.” American Music 10, no. 3 (1992): 289–326.“Abe Santiago—Hispanic Contribution to Doo-Wop …” „… /difference-between-reverb-and-echo.html.“Doo Wop Acapella Groups,” “4 Ever Young,” “Gel Caps,” “MC6,” “Stormy Weather.”Primarily A Capella …”

4 Where the Boys Were and the Girls Weren’t S. 77-94

„… Dis-tinctions of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. However, male membershipdominated the world of doo-wop acappella …” „… the reader with as many gender-related influenceson the 1950s and 1960s doo-wop acappella community, a …” „… grounds for the doo-wop acappella community of the late1950s and early 1960s. If the need for space is a …”

7 Who’s Got Talent? S. 129-148

„… doo-wop acappella singers, one may wonder about theirinherent talent. Was it just coincidence that these …” „… and theSalutations, the Passions, or the Savoys’ acappella rendition, and youwill hear the doo-wop …” „… “low-pitched” means in the doo-wop musical vocabulary.Thus, how were the acappella groups able to maintain …”

Glossary of Terms S. 201-208

„… a pop-oriented style of rhythm andblues.Doo-wop acappella: doo-wop music that is totally sung …” „… doo-wop-acappella community tosignify an integration of or a collective of singers of various racial andethnic …” „… avocal range between the bass and the tenor voices. In doo-wop harmo-ny, it lies between the bass and …”

About the Author S. 223

„… , and Street Theatre productionsin the New York City area. And, yes, he has sung doo-wop acappella.He …”

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