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Doo-Wop Acappella
A Story of Street Corners, Echoes, and Three-Part Harmonies
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2016
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In Doo-Wop Acappella: A Story of Street Corners, Echoes, and Three-Part Harmonies, scholar and musician Lawrence Pitilli details this too-little-explored area of 1950’s - early 60’s American culture. As Kenny Vance and the Planotones suggested in their classic song “Looking for an Echo,” every doo-wop acapella group’s mission—the search “for a sound, a place to be in harmony, a place we almost found”—was more than the story of street kids seeking recording glory. It is the tale of urban change, mass migrations, ethnic acculturation, a changing radio and recording industry, and the dynamics of cultural change in the “sounds”—sonic and linguistic—that every generation seeks to make and re-make for itself.
In his study of this neglected period, Pitilli uncovers a rich musical tradition practiced largely by amateurs in an almost mythologized urban America. Although most of these practitioners were musically untrained, their lack of formal music education and financial support neither diluted their passion for singing or their quest for possible fame and fortune. In this engagingly written and celebratory work, Pitilli further demonstrates that doo-wop acappella was closely tied to broader issues, including the self-invented individual, gender roles, ethnicity, race, and class.
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-4429-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-4430-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
223
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 History in the Making No access Pages 1 - 38
2 Harmony on an Urban Stage No access Pages 39 - 54
3 Nonsense Syllables, Echoes, and the Sweet Science of It All No access Pages 55 - 76
4 Where the Boys Were and the Girls Weren’t No access Pages 77 - 94
5 From Street Corners to Vinyl No access Pages 95 - 114
6 Doo-Wop Acappella as Folk Art, Folk Music, and Performance Art No access Pages 115 - 128
7 Who’s Got Talent? No access Pages 129 - 148
8 Doo-Wop Acappella and Popular Culture No access Pages 149 - 164
9 Why the Persuasions Matter No access Pages 165 - 178
10 Those Oldies But Goodies No access Pages 179 - 190
11 Where Do We Go from Here—or—Where Have We Been Going? No access Pages 191 - 200
Glossary of Terms No access Pages 201 - 208
Bibliography No access Pages 209 - 214
Index No access Pages 215 - 222
About the Author No access Pages 223 - 223
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