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Doo-wop

Definition: Doo-wop

Doo-wop

Noun

1. A genre (usually a capella) of Black vocal-harmony music of the 1950s that evolved in New York City from gospel singing; characterized by close four-part harmonies; the name derived from some of the nonsense syllables sung by the back-up vocalists.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Commercial Usage: Doo-wop

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Books

  • The Complete Book of Doo-Wop (reference)

  • Classic Rock of the '50s: Early Rock 'n' Roll, Doo-Wop and R&B (Guitar-Tab) (reference)

  • Gothic Doo-Wop (reference)

  • The Doo-Wop Sing-Along Songbook (reference)

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Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Doo-wop

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Doo-wop is a style of vocal-based Rhythm and blues music popular in the mid- to late-1950s in America. The style was at first characterized by upbeat harmony vocals ("Gee," by the Crows, for example) that used nonsense syllables from which the name of the style is derived. The name was later extended to group harmony ballads. Examples of doo-wop can be found in the music of The Turbans, The Penguins, and Jackie & the Starlites. 
See also Scat singing, Vocalese.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Doo-wop."
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Modern Translation: Doo-wop
Language Translations for "doo-wop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji 
  
ドイツ連邦共å'Œå›½  (a do-it-yourself store, cancel at the last minute, Debussy, dock, docking, doctor, doctor course, doctrine, document, documental, documentary, documentary drama, documentation, dodecaphony, dodge ball, doeskin, dog racing, dogfight, doggie bag, dogma, dogmatic, dogmatism, dogmatist, doily, do-it-yourself, dominant, domino, donor, doom, dot, dot map, dot matrix, dot printer, dwell, dwelling, Federal Republic of Germany, referee's stop, thud, to be noisy, to make noise, yakuza sword). (various references)
   
Japanese Katakana 
  
ドゥーワップ . (various references)
   
Pig Latin
  
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Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.
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Anagrams: Doo-wop
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
Words within the letters "d-o-o-o-p-w"
-2 letters: pood, wood.
-3 letters: dow, pod, pow, woo, wop.
-4 letters: do, od, op, ow, wo.
 Words containing the letters "d-o-o-o-p-w"
 
+2 letters: porkwood.
 
+3 letters: porkwoods.
 
+4 letters: poisonwood.
 
+5 letters: poisonwoods, woodchopper.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Doo-wop

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)
44 6F 6F 2D 77 6F 70
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)
01000100 01101111 01101111 00101101 01110111 01101111 01110000
HTML Code (1990) (references)
&#68  &#111  &#111  &#45  &#119  &#111  &#112
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)
0044 006F 006F 002D 0077 006F 0070
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)
38818115898182
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INDEX
 1. Definition 
 2. Usage: Commercial 
 3. Translations: Modern 
 4. Anagrams 		 5. Orthography 
 6. Bibliography 


  
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