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The document discusses the genre of R&B music that the group chose as the basis for their music video featuring a girl band. R&B originated in the 1940s as a marketing term for African American music that blended jazz, rock, and blues. It contributed to the development of rock and roll and encompassed soul and funk styles by the 1970s. Well-known R&B singers include artists from the 1950s onward who helped popularize the genre.

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RNB Research

The document discusses the genre of R&B music that the group chose as the basis for their music video featuring a girl band. R&B originated in the 1940s as a marketing term for African American music that blended jazz, rock, and blues. It contributed to the development of rock and roll and encompassed soul and funk styles by the 1970s. Well-known R&B singers include artists from the 1950s onward who helped popularize the genre.

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IDEAS OF GROUP

I and other members of my group had decided to base our music video on a r&b genre because it would fit in properly with the ideas we had for our music video, which was going to in involve a girl band.

ALL ABOUT R&B

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

MORE ABOUT R&B


In the early 1950s, the term rhythm and blues (R&B) was frequently applied to blues records. 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 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".

FAMOUS R&B SINGERS

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