Doowop
Subtitle: The Chicago Scene (Music in American Life)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: April 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780252022081
Subjects: Blues; Jazz; Rock & pop; Black Musicians And Their Music; Rock Music; Music; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; USA; Composers & Musicians - Country & Folk; Genres & Styles - Rock; Music / General; Reference; 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.