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9780252065064 Academic Inspection Copy

Doowop

The Chicago Scene
  • ISBN-13: 9780252065064
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Robert Pruter
  • Price: AUD $69.99
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  • Local release date: 16/03/1997
  • Format: Paperback 360 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Music [AV]
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The Chicago Tribune's Bill Dahl praised Robert Pruter's Doowop for ''vividly describ[ing] an enchanting time on the local music scene, when a handful of teenagers could taste rock 'n' roll stardom with harmonies they cooked up on a street corner.''Pruter foraged sources from fanzines to the Chicago Defender and conducted extensive interviews in cooking up Doowop, which chronicles the careers of such legendary 1950s groups as the Flamingos, the Moonglows, the Spaniels, and the El Dorados, along with virtually every other Chicago doowop group that contributed to that era.Supported by a grant from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Inc.
''Meticulously chronicles the careers of legendary 1950s R & B vocal groups such as the Flamingos, Moonglows, Spaniels, and El Dorados (as well as myriad lesser-known aggregations)...Vividly describes an enchanting time on the local music scene, when a handful of teenagers could taste rock 'n' roll stardom with harmonies they cooked up on a street corner.'' -- Chicago Tribune
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