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Created page with "== History of R&B == Rhythm and Blues (R&B) is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz-based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular. The term has since had a number of shifts in meaning. In the early 1950s, it was frequently applied to blues r..."
