What does R&B stand for?

Question

me and my friends have been wondering for years

Answer 1

Rythum and Blues

Answer 2

rhythm and blues
-Rhythm and blues (also known as 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[2]) 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.[1]

In Rock & Roll: An Unruly History (1995) Robert Palmer defines "Rhythm & 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.

Answer 3

Rythm and Blues. For a time (in the 1920s-1940s when R&B was still developing as a new genre), R&B was concidered "Race Music", because most of the performers from R&B bands are from African decent. The term has never been used again, however, since the term is extremely racist.

Answer 4

Rhythm and Blues

Answer 5

Rhythm and Blues

Answer 6

Rhythm and Blues

Answer 7

Rhythm and blues

Answer 8

Rhythm and blues

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Rhythm and blues

Answer 10

These days - it stands for Rap and Bull$h*t

(almost every single R&B trivia question ever asked falls into one of those two categories)

Answer 11

Lol Rhythm & Blues, lol and if your wondering what Rap means Rhythm & Poetry lol.