Rhythm and Blues as we all know it is a a genre of popular African American music that originated 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. The meaning of R&B changed arbitrarily from the 1950′s up to now.

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Posted by volume on November 30th, 2011 :: Filed under Music
Tags :: R&B

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