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    This document provides an overview of the rhythm and blues musical genre. It discusses the origins of R&B in the 1920s-1930s among Black communities in urban areas. Key instruments included the piano, trumpets, saxophones, bass and drums. In the 1950s, R&B gained popularity among white teenagers as well. Major R&B artists emerged from the late 1950s through the 1980s like Elvis Presley, Usher, R. Kelly, Janet Jackson and Mary J. Blige. The document also profiles two iconic R&B artists, Beyoncé and Ruth Brown, known as the "Queen of R&B".

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    This document provides an overview of the rhythm and blues musical genre. It discusses the origins of R&B in the 1920s-1930s among Black communities in urban areas. Key instruments included the piano, trumpets, saxophones, bass and drums. In the 1950s, R&B gained popularity among white teenagers as well. Major R&B artists emerged from the late 1950s through the 1980s like Elvis Presley, Usher, R. Kelly, Janet Jackson and Mary J. Blige. The document also profiles two iconic R&B artists, Beyoncé and Ruth Brown, known as the "Queen of R&B".

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    This document provides an overview of the rhythm and blues musical genre. It discusses the origins of R&B in the 1920s-1930s among Black communities in urban areas. Key instruments included the piano, trumpets, saxophones, bass and drums. In the 1950s, R&B gained popularity among white teenagers as well. Major R&B artists emerged from the late 1950s through the 1980s like Elvis Presley, Usher, R. Kelly, Janet Jackson and Mary J. Blige. The document also profiles two iconic R&B artists, Beyoncé and Ruth Brown, known as the "Queen of R&B".

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    Rhythm and Blues Musical Genres

    BOLIA IOANA-ADNANA
    • For decades, the Billboard Hot 100 and
    Introduction: Top 40 charts have been populated with
    rhythm and blues, an American musical
    genre first developed by Black artists in
    the mid-twentieth century.
    • I chose this topic because I believe that
    this unique genre had a huge impact in
    American history by simply
    embodying what afro-american people
    were living during the post-war era.
    The Beginning of R&B
    • The great migration of Black Americans to the
    urban industrial centers of Chicago, Detroit, New
    York City, Los Angeles and elsewhere in the 1920s
    and 1930s created a new market for jazz, blues, and
    related genres of music.
    • Firstly, R&B music was called "race music" or
    "sepia series", terms which originated in the black
    comunities.
    • Later it was changed to "Rhythm and Blues" by
    Jerry Wexler, the director of Billboard's magazine,
    in 1943, but he took credit for it in 1948. He
    changed the name because he considered that the
    original term was deamining.
    Lyrical Themes and Most Played Instruments
    • The African-American experience of sorrow
    and the struggle for freedom and joy, as well
    as triumphs  and failures in terms of
    relationships, finances and aspirations,  often
    encapsulated in R&B lyrical themes.

    • The sound of the piano combined


    with the trumpets , tenor saxophone,
    bass, and drums was fitting perfectly
    with the lyrical themes, creating a
    unique way of expressing emotions.
    R&B from The Late 1950's to The Late 1980's
    • Firstly, according to Jerry Wexler, R&B records were only purchased by African-Americans
    because there was no radio exposure in other regions, except those that were populated by
    black people.
    • More youths started to become aware of R&B in the early 1950's and began buying R&B discs.
    • Eventually, white teenagers all around the United States turned their musical taste towards
    Rhythm and Blues.
    • Many new artists started to  arise and the R&B musical genre began to gain a lot of
    popularity all over the world. By the 1970's, "Rhythm and Blues" had become a catch-
    all phrase for soul, funk and disco.
    • Elvis Presley was the first non-African American artist to be advertised as an R&B singer, after
    his major two hits "Jail House Rock" and "Treat me nice".
    • British Rhythm and Blues was a  musical
    movement that gained popularity in the United

    British Rhythm
    Kingdom from the late 1950's to the early 1960's,
    peaking in the mid-1960's.

    and Blues • The Rolling Stones, Manfred Mann, the Animals,


    Them, and The Spencer Davis Group were the
    most popular british R&B groups in the
    mid 1960's.
    Contemporary Rhythm and Blues
    • In the late 1980s and early 1990s, hip-hop started to capture the imagination of America's youth. R&B started
    to become homogenized, with a group of high-profile producers responsible for most R&B hits. It was hard
    for R&B artists of the era to sell their music or even have their music heard because of the rise of hip-hop, but
    some adopted a "hip-hop" image, were marketed as such, and often featured rappers on their songs.
    • Newer artists such as Usher, R. Kelly, Janet Jackson, TLC, Aaliyah, Destiny's Child, Tevin
    Campbell and Mary J. Blige  started to enjoy success. L.A. Reid, the CEO of LaFace Records, was
    responsible for some of R&B's greatest successes in the 1990s in the form of Usher, TLC and Toni Braton.
    Later, Reid successfully marketed Boyz II Men.
    • In 2004, 80% of the songs that topped the R&B charts were also at the top of the Hot 100. That period was the
    all-time peak for R&B and hip hop on the Billboard Hot 100 and on Top 40 Radio
    Big R&B Personalities
    Beyonce
    • Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter is an
    american actress and R&B singer.
    • She made her solo debut in 2003 with the
    "Dangerously in love album" which had two
    number one singles on the US Billboard Hot
    100.
    • Beyonce Knowles is the most awarded black
    female singer in history and the second most
    awarded artist in history.
    • In 2021 she broke the record of the most
    Grammy-winning female arist in history.
    Ruth Brown- The
    Queen of R&B
    • Ruth Alston Brown was an American
    singer-songwriter and actress,
    sometimes known as the "Queen of
    R&B". She was noted for bringing
    a pop music style to R&B music in a
    series of hit songs for Atlantic
    Records in the 1950s, such as "So
    Long", "Teardrops from My Eyes"
    and "(Mama) He Treats Your
    Daughter Mean".For these
    contributions, Atlantic became known
    as "the house that Ruth built".
    "If you want to move an audience, both spiritually and
    physically, a well-written, well-performed R&B song will do
    it."
    THANK YOU!

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