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Definition: Rhythm And Blues |
Rhythm And BluesNoun1. A combination of blues and jazz that was developed in the United States by Black musicians; an important precursor of rock 'n' roll. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Rhythm And BluesSynonym: R and B (n). (additional references) |
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Rhythm and Blues, or R&B, is a musical marketing term introduced in the late 1940s by Billboard magazine to replace the term race music, which was deemed offensive. Rather than describing a recognizable musical genre, rhythm and blues has come to be used to indicate whatever contemporary music is popular with African-Americans.
In its first manifestation, rhythm and blues was a black version of a predecessor to rock and roll. It was strongly influenced by jazz and jump music as well as black gospel music, and influenced jazz in return (hard bop was the product of the influence of rhythm and blues, blues, and gospel music on bebop). Musicians paid little attention to the distinction between jazz and rhythm and blues, and frequently recorded in both genres. Numerous swing bands (for example, Jay McShann's, Tiny Bradshaw's, and Johnny Otis's) also recorded rhythm and blues. Even a bebop icon like arranger Tadd Dameron also arranged for Bull Moose Jackson and spent two years as Jackson's pianist after establishing himself in bebop.
Ironically, it was through the thriving UK pop scene of the early 1960s that R&B reached the height of its popularity. Without the same kind of racial distinctions that refused it acceptance in the USA, white British performers and listeners adopted this novel style of music without question, and groups such as The Rolling Stones and Manfred Mann brought it to a wider audience.
The term fell into disfavor in the 1960s being replaced by soul music and Motown, but has re-emerged in recent years indicating black popular music encompassing pop heavily influenced by hip-hop, funk, and soul music. In this context only the abbreviation R&B is used, not the full expression.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rhythm and blues."
Crosswords: Rhythm And Blues |
| English words defined with "rhythm and blues": Antoine Domino ♦ Domino ♦ Fats Domino ♦ mods ♦ rhythm and blues musician. (references) |
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Lyrics | I need a shot of rhythm and blues (Roll Over Beethoven; performing artist: Chuck Berry) Roll Over Beethoven and dig these rhythm and blues (Roll Over Beethoven; performing artist: Chuck Berry) Man, I dig those rhythm and blues (American Pie; performing artist: Don McLean) Fed on the rhythm and blues (Bop Til You Drop; performing artist: The Nylons) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rhythm and Blues Revue (1955) | |
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Economic History | Panama | Lively salsa--a mixture of Latin American popular music, rhythm and blues, jazz, and rock--is a Panamanian specialty, and Ruben Blades its best-known performer. (references) |
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Expression using "rhythm and blues": rhythm and blues musician. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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rhythm and blues music | 25 |
history of rhythm and blues | 21 |
rhythm and blues artist | 8 |
rhythm and blues singer | 5 |
rhythm and blues guitar | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "rhythm and blues"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | ルーン文字 (look, looks, Louis Vuitton, Louisiana, lure, lutetium, lux, Luxembourg, R and B, Renaissance, Renault, ressentiment, rhythm, rhythm box, rhythm machine, ruby, ruby glass, rune, ruthenium). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ルズムアンドブルース (R and B). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ythmrhay anday uesblay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-h-h-l-m-n-r-s-t-u-y" | |
-4 letters: subtrahend. | |
-5 letters: breadnuts, brushland, bystander, drumbeats, endurably, eurybaths, headhunts, husbander, husbandly, husbandry, hydranths, menstrual, subaltern, subdermal, sunbathed, sunbather, underlays, unearthly, unhealthy, unstabler, unthreads. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 68 79 74 68 6D 41 6E 64 42 6C 75 65 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01101000 01111001 01110100 01101000 01101101 00100000 01000001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01000010 01101100 01110101 01100101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R h y t h m   A n d   B l u e s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0068 0079 0074 0068 006D 0041 006E 0064 0042 006C 0075 0065 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527491867479235807023678877185 |
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