What is R&B? Rhythm and Blues, often known as R&B or RnB is a genre of African-Americans music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed primarily to urban African Americans, at a time when urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat was becoming more welcomed. 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, saxophone, and sometimes background vocalists. R&B lyrical themes often encapsulate the African-American experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy. Lyrics focus heavily on the themes of triumphs and failures in terms of relationships, freedom, economics, aspirations, and sex.
Who created R&B? R&B Music came into prominence in the late 1940s with Cab Calloway, The Harlem Hamfats, Count Basie, Louis Jordan and others. "The term Rhythm & Blues" (R&B) was first coined in 1948 by music journalist turned record producer Jerry Wexler. Contemporary R&B originated at the end of the disco era, in the late 1970s.
What is a R&B song? Now the term R&B is almost always used instead of the full rhythm and blues, and mainstream use of the term usually refers to Contemporary R&B, which is a newer version of soul and funk-influenced pop music that originated as disco faded from popularity.
Where did rhythm and blues come from? Rhythm and blues (or R&B) was coined as a musical marketing term introduced in the United States in the late 1940s by Jerry Wexler at Billboard magazine, used to designate upbeat popular music performed by African American artists that combined jazz and blues.
History of R&B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQv4oeaZ414 this link is a short documentary/summary of the History of R&B
Old R&B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBmkCoiHC2c&list=PLBYClQH2PtpmE3FN-USkSQP2GW8ZPUJ3V this is old/classical R&B music
Modern R&B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfN4PVaOU5Q&list=PLw-VjHDlEOgtexfDOC9wglDcoBpeTpQKN this is more of a modern take of R&B music
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