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For one thing, that's not bebop. That's doo wop.
Be-bop is a style of free-form jazz.
For another, it be-bop-a-Lula.
Bunner and sub-genres sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G...
Hardly.
Be-bop was just an offhand, onomatopoeic way of describing the sort of rhythmic jazz that coined the phrase, and doo-wop was just what kids called a` capella singing because the guys would use nonsense syllables to approximate the sounds of the instruments or [traditionally] orchestral passages that they were comping. The only "doo wop" song that actually has the lyric "doo-wop-doo-wah" in it, IIRC, is "In the Still Of The Night" by the Five Satins.
Naturally, critics got ahold of those ideas and used them as labels and tried to create 'genres' around them. Critics and white people have fucked up more good music than any Creed recording session in history.
Now the tail wags the dog.
A genre for every band, and for every band, a genre.
K-I-S-S this, Pookey.
Love,
bunner
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I wanted my half in the middle and I wound up on the edge.