2007-01-05 09:41:38 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Rhythym and Blues
my favorite!!
2007-01-05 09:47:14 · answer #1 · answered by Joker 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
R And B Stand For
2017-01-20 23:41:36 · answer #2 · answered by mccrory 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rhythm and blues (aka R&B or RnB) is a popular music genre combining jazz, gospel, and blues influences — first performed by African American artists.
The term was coined as a musical marketing term in the United States in 1947 by Jerry Wexler at Billboard magazine.[1] It replaced the term race music (which originally came from within the black community, but was deemed offensive in the more positive postwar world,[1]), and the Billboard category Harlem Hit Parade in June 1949. The term was initially used to identify the rocking style of music that combined the 12 bar blues format and boogie-woogie with a back beat, which later became a fundamental element of rock and roll. In 1948, RCA Victor was marketing black music under the name Blues and Rhythm. The words were reversed by Wexler of Atlantic Records, the most aggressive and dominant label in the R&B field in the early years.[citation needed]
In Rock & Roll: An Unruly History (1995) Robert Palmer defines "rhythm and blues" as a catchall rubric used to refer to any music that was made by and for black Americans. In his 1981 book Deep Blues Palmer used "r&b" as a synonym for jump blues. Lawrence Cohn, author of Nothing but the Blues, writes that rhythm and blues was an umbrella term invented for industry convenience, which embraced all black music except classical music and religious music, unless a gospel song sold enough to break into the charts.
By the 1970s, rhythm and blues was being used as a blanket term to describe soul and funk. Today the acronym R&B is almost always used instead of the full rhythm and blues, and mainstream use of the term refers to a modern version of soul and funk-influenced pop music that originated as disco became less favorable.
2007-01-05 09:44:16 · answer #3 · answered by iKILLu 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Rythym and Blues
2007-01-05 09:44:25 · answer #4 · answered by Cheyenne 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Rythem and Blues
2007-01-05 09:43:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Rhythym and Blues
2007-01-05 09:43:47 · answer #6 · answered by Lee W. 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
r&b stands for rythem and blues
2007-01-05 09:48:34 · answer #7 · answered by MeG_wovess_U! 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Rythm and Blues.
2007-01-05 09:45:01 · answer #8 · answered by stringer_G 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Isn't it Rhythem and Blues?
2007-01-05 09:45:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
rhythm and blues
2007-01-05 09:44:04 · answer #10 · answered by shyplayer68 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋