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Rhythm and 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 and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of a piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, one or more saxophones, and sometimes background vocalists. R&B lyrical themes often encapsulate the African-American history and experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy, as well as triumphs and failures in terms of societal racism, oppression, relationships, economics, and aspirations. The term "rhythm and blues" has undergone a number of shifts in meaning. In the early 1950s, it was frequently applied to blues records. Starting in the mid-1950s, after t

Rhythm and blues - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Music genre originating in the 1940s in the United States This article is about the original form of R&B. For the modern form, mixed with other genres, see Contemporary R&B . For other uses, see Rhythm and blues (disambiguation) . "RnB" redirects here. For the Japanese television station that uses the abbreviation RNB, see Nankai Broadcasting . For the EP by Ruger and Bnxn, see RnB (EP) . Jessie Carney Smith, ed. \"Encyclopedia of African American popular culture\" Greenwood, 2011, p.1163.</ref>\n* [[blues]]<ref

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