R&B also known as Rhythm and Blues is the name of a large genre of popular music, created by African Americans in around 1940-1950. The word was originally used by record companies to stand for the records bought mostly by blacks around the time of urban, rocking, jazz, and rock and roll. Around 1960 R&B then became popular with the White Americans standing for the music developed from electric blues, gospel, and soul music. Later in the 1970's the term Rhythm and Blues was being used to describe sould and funk music. Today we use Contemporary R&B to refer to our modern version of sould and fuck influenced music other wise known as pop music.
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