R&B Subculture

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular.

The term has subsequently had a number of shifts in meaning. In the early 1950s, the term rhythm and blues was frequently applied to blues records. Starting in the mid-1950s, after this style of music contributed to the development of rock and roll, the term "R&B" became used to refer to music styles that developed from and incorporated electric blues, as well as gospel and soul music. By the 1970s, rhythm and blues was used as a blanket term for soul and funk. In the 1980s, a newer style of R&B developed, becoming known as "Contemporary R&B".

50's-60's R&B Artists. suit & tie simillar dress sense to the earlier sub genre of swing.

70's R&B was a collection of soul, funk, jazz & disco.

BY THE 80'S, R&B GAINED A LARGER CAUCASIAN AUDIENCE AND BECAME KNOWN AS COMMERCIAL R&B.

80's R&B lead to the Jackson 5, Luther Vandross, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston,  Bobby Brown,  Jodeci & Bell Biv Devoe, 

90's R&B (the best era of R&B) was the most innovative time for R&B. 80's artists like MJ, whitney etc became more and more popular and the formations of girl bands grew tremendously.

90's fashion was unique. And with the rise in new technology such as the CD player etc, music was being more and more valued. 

Other artists like boys II men, aaliyah, mariah carey & r kelly heavily made R&B mainstream.

90's also brought across neo soul which added 1970s soul influences to the hip hop soul blend led by artists such as D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, and Maxwell.

FROM 2000 R&B OFFICIALLY DIED AND JUST BECAME POP. IT BECAME SO MAINSTREAM THAT THE MEDIA NOW USE IT AS A WAY TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE YOUNG TEENAGE PUBLIC. THE MIXTURE OF R&B HAVE LEFT TO TRENDS SUCH AS: JERKING, DOUGIEING, SNAPBACKS, JORDANS, NIKE BLAZERS, SWAG? 

IT HAS LEAD TO ROLE MODELS BEING TWATS LIKE THIS

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