What is Rhythm and blues?, Explain Rhythm and blues, Define Rhythm and blues

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Title: What is Rhythm and blues?, Explain Rhythm and blues, Define Rhythm and blues
Created on: 2018-10-13

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Description: Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, one or more saxophones, and sometimes background vocalists. R&B lyrical themes often encapsulate the African-American experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy, as well as triumphs and failures in terms of relationships, economics, aspirations, and sex. The term "rhythm and blues" has undergone a number of shifts in meaning. In the early 1950s, it was frequently applied to blues records. Starting in the mid-1950s, after this style of music contributed to the development of rock and roll, the term "R&B" became used to refer to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul music. In the 1960s, several British rock bands such as the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Animals were referred to and promoted as being R&B bands; posters for the Who's residency at the Marquee Club in 1964 contained the slogan, "Maximum R&B". Their mix of rock and roll and R&B is now known as "British rhythm and blues". By the 1970s, the term "rhythm and blues" changed again and was used as a blanket term for soul and funk. In the 1980s, a newer style of R&B developed, becoming known as "contemporary R&B". It combines elements of rhythm and blues, pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music. Popular R&B vocalists at the end of the 20th century included Prince, R. Kelly, Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston, and Mariah Carey.

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[wotsupoo]

Rhythm and blues should be considered a macro genre, very generic, as its name is. And it did have jazz influences at the beginnings as rock and roll/rockabilly directly descended from blues and it generally avoided the many brass instruments and soft drums of jazz which are found in the early rhythm and blues. The modern term only conserves the quality african american style vocals and the soft 1-3 hard 2-4 tempo. You're welcome.

[heidikeryan]

Love this video, it describes everything I am learning in my African American Musical Heritage from Blues to Jazz, its crazy understanding how much impact Blues has had on modern music.

[mythicaldn]

*me
*searching google what is r&b and found the wikipedia
*checks youtube for a simplified explanation
*this dude - *copies the wikipedia
😂😂

[TrueSpeak-TS]

is this literally text to speech from Google

[michaelkunz]

sorry, but Jazz was not the source of rhythm and blues. Blues is the only source of Jazz and many other kinds of black music.