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Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.
5 days ago · Rhythm and blues, term used for several types of postwar African-American popular music, as well as for some white rock music derived from it. Perhaps the most commonly understood meaning of the term is as a description of the sophisticated urban music that had been developing since the 1930s.
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Nov 18, 2009 · The term "rhythm and blues," often called "R&B," originated in the 1940s when it replaced "race music" as a general marketing term for all African American music, though it usually referred only to secular, not religious music.
Rhythm and blues is a form of Black dance music that has its origins in the post-World War II era (1939–1945); the term itself is attributed to Jerry Wexler, a writer for Billboard, who coined it in 1949 for the magazine’s Black music chart to replace the term “Race Music” (a term in use since 1920). Rhythm and blues performers ...
Sep 20, 2016 · Rhythmically, R&B now encompasses a wide breadth from blues shuffles with a back beat to boogie-woogie, modified rumba rhythms, and syncopated variations of eight-beat rhythm patterns that are the hallmark of rock ’n’ roll, and more.
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May 8, 2011 · Rhythm and blues (R&B, soul). Popular black music genre of US origin. Rooted in the "urban blues" style of the early 1930s and influenced by the black jazz orchestras of the swing era, R&B emerged in the 1940s initially in the form of small-band "jump" music with novelty-type vocalists and jazz-based hornmen and organists.
