R&B

Rhythm and Blues (R&B) is a music genre combining jazz, gospel, and blues influences which developed within African-American communities in the 1940s and achieved mainstream popularity in the 1950s to 1960s.

By the 1970s, the term rhythm and blues was being used as a blanket term to describe soul and funk. In the 2000s, the abbreviation R&B is almost always used instead of the full “rhythm and blues”, and mainstream use of the term usually refers to contemporary R&B, which is a modern version of soul and funk-influenced pop music that originated as disco faded from popularity.

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