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Doowop
The Chicago Scene
Robert Pruter
Paper978-0-252-06506-4
$30.95
| Pub Date: | 1997 |
| Pages: | 360 pages |
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.
A volume in the series Music in American Life
Supported by a grant from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Inc.
Awards:
Recipient of the ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in the Field of Recorded Rock, Rhythm and Blues, or Soul, 1997.
Series:
Music in American Life
Subjects:
Music / Black Studies / Illinois / Popular Culture / Folklore / Chicago / Midwest Regional
