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Rhythm and blues, R&B Mashups (also known as R&B, R'n'B or RnB) is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music first created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The term R&B Mashups was originally used by record companies to refer to recordings bought predominantly by African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular. R&B Mashups.
The term, R&B, R&B Mashups has subsequently had a number of shifts in meaning. Starting in the 1960s, after this style of music, R&B contributed to the development of rock and roll, the term R&B, R&B Mashups became used - particularly by white groups — to refer to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul music. By the 1970s, the term rhythm and blues, R&B was being used as a blanket term to describe soul and funk. Since the 1990s, the term Contemporary R&B, R&B Mashups is now mainly used to refer to a modern version of soul and funk-influenced pop music. R&B Mashups.
Jerry Wexler of Billboard magazine coined the term rhythm and blues, R&B, R&B Mashups in 1948 as a musical marketing term in the United States. R&B replaced the term "race music", which originally came from within the black community, but was deemed offensive in the postwar world. Writer/producer Robert Palmer defined rhythm & blues, R&B, R&B Mashups as "a catchall term referring to any music that was made by and for black Americans". He has used the term R&B, R&B Mashups as a synonym for jump blues. Lawrence Cohn, author of Nothing but the Blues, writes that rhythm and blues, R&B, R&B Mashups was an umbrella term invented for industry convenience. According to him, the term embraced all black music except classical music and religious music, unless a gospel song sold enough to break into the charts. R&B Mashups.
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