My son take himself to the barbershop these days, but when he was little he loved the music.
Is that like a barbershop quartet? Four guys in porkpie hats harmonizing?
No, I'm referring to the selection of music played over the PA system at the barbershop.
Oh ok. I was just imagining some big guy in a red and white striped outfit singing a deep baritone.
Oh the DooWop musicians-I didn't realize there was a competition for this.
These days it's generally a bunch of greasers who form a Barbershop a capella group in order to reenact the 1930's.
What is a greaser? Do they make money or is it a hobby?
Greaser (subculture)
Greasers are a youth subculture that was popularized in the 1950s to 1960s by predominantly working class and lower class teenagers and young adults in the United States. The subculture remained prominent into the mid-1960s and was particularly embraced by certain ethnic groups in urban areas, particularly Italian-Americans and Hispanic-Americans. Rock and roll music, rockabilly and doo-wop were major parts of the culture.
History.
History Etymology of the term "greaser".
The word "greaser" originated in the
the Uniquely American Musical Term Barbershop". American Music 32, no. 2, 123–171.
- Hobson, Vic (2014): "Creating Jazz Counterpoint: New Orleans, Barbershop Harmony, and the Blues". Jackson/MI: University Press of Mississippi.
External links.
- Present at the Creation: Barbershop Quartets from NPR
- Barbershop Quartets on 78rpms: How Quartet Harmonizing Became Known as Barbershop
- Website of Barbershop-o-gram (aka The Quidco Quartet)
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