home/glossary/Doo-Wop

Doo-Wop

nounid 45943·updated May 18, 2026
verified

a genre (usually a cappella) of Black vocal-harmony music of the 1950s that evolved in New York City from gospel singing

Attested in

No recorded attestations. They are written when an MWE tagging stage is completed, stamped with the pack version and the document’s digest.

Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Doo-Wops
possessive
Doo-Wop's
pluralpossessive
Doo-Wops'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary1 senseview framework →
§1
a genre (usually a cappella) of Black vocal-harmony music of the 1950s that evolved in New York City from gospel singing
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
a genre (usually a cappella) of Black vocal-harmony music of the 1950s that evolved in New York City from gospel singing
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

Outgoing relationships

No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.