Rhythm & Blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R’n’B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when “rocking, jazz-based music … (with a) heavy, insistent beat” was becoming more popular. In the commercial Rhythm & Blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of a piano, one or two…
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