‘Streetlight Harmonies’ takes viewers on sweet trip to American music’s innocent youth - MMCxchange https://mmcxchange.com/ Thu, 21 May 2026 13:03:27 -0400 en-US hourly 1 Baltimore Times RSS Hub ‘Streetlight Harmonies’ takes viewers on sweet trip to American music’s innocent youth https://mmcxchange.com/detail/streetlight-harmonies-takes-viewers-on-sweet-trip-to-american-musics-innocent-youth_1777207331 Fri, 24 Apr 2020 03:02:04 -0400 https://mmcxchange.com/detail/streetlight-harmonies-takes-viewers-on-sweet-trip-to-american-musics-innocent-youth_1777207331 ‘Streetlight Harmonies’ takes viewers on sweet trip to American music’s innocent youth

Poster from doo-wop documentary "Streetlight Harmonies" COURTESY PHOTO Way before they were crying in the club, folks were “Crying In The Chapel.” The Orioles’ 1953 hit came at the advent of doo-wop, a musical genre created in Black neighborhoods on America’s East coast at the height of the Cold War Era. Created by the first generation of children of the Great Migration, doo-wop was a youth-generated genre as well. With childhoods shaped by city culture, these adolescents grew up mere miles from…]]>