Doowop
Subtitle: THE CHICAGO SCENE (Music in American Life)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: January 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780252065064
Subjects: Rock & pop; Sociology, Social Studies; Black Musicians And Their Music; Rock Music; Music/Songbooks; Music; USA; Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal; History & Criticism - General; Music / General; Genres & Styles - Soul & R&B; Chicago; Doo-wop (Music); History and criticism; Illinois
First sentence: Chance Records, along with Parrot, Chess, and United, was one of the pioneering labels in Chicago to record the new African American sounds that swept the city in the post-World War II years, the music of doowop harmony groups and Mississippi blues adapted to the urban scene with electrically amplified instruments.