what does R&B stand for?

Question

what exacly is r&b music?
and what is stands for?

Answer 1

Rhythm and Blues

Answer 2

It stands for Rhythm and Blues. It's kinda like soulful music.

Answer 3

Rhythm and Blues

Answer 4

Rhythm and Blues

Answer 5

Rhythm and Blues
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.

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. It replaced the term race music (which originally came from within the black community, but was deemed offensive in the more positive postwar world 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 leading label in the R&B field in the early years.
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.



Examples

Ray Charles & JAMES BROWN & Jimi Hendrix


purely rhythm & blues

rhythm:_noun-movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
2.Music.
a.the pattern of regular or irregular pulses caused in music by the occurrence of strong and weak melodic and harmonic beats.
b.a particular form of this: duple rhythm; triple rhythm.
3.measured movement, as in dancing.
4.Art, Literature. a patterned repetition of a motif, formal element, etc., at regular or irregular intervals in the same or a modified form.
5.the effect produced in a play, film, novel, etc., by the combination or arrangement of formal elements, as length of scenes, speech and description, timing, or recurrent themes, to create movement, tension, and emotional value in the development of the plot.

blues:adj.

plot of sentence coordinate the theory of music.

-frank gonato

Answer 6

Rhythm and Blues Music
Wanna know more about the music? Try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues

Answer 7

Rhythm and Blues
or
Rough and Black.haha

Answer 8

Rhythm and blues. It basically combines jazz, gospel, and blues together in one genre.

Answer 9

R&B stands for Rythym & Blues

Answer 10

Rhythm and blues.