The History of R&B

RnB is an abbreviation of rhythm and blues. Rhythm and blues was originally created by the
African Americans in the late 1940’s.
During the slavery period people (preferably black) used to sing to pass the time, they used to sing about their thoughts and emotions which at the time the feelings of people being used for slavery were sad and depressing this is where the term ‘blues’ came from, blues symbolising the term for feeling blue. Later on though after the slavery period, the people were released and then they continued to sing songs but this time they added a bit of rhythm to it, so this is where the term rhythm came from.
RnB is based on emotions and thoughts of people and people’s experiences. But as time progressed Rhythm and Blues began to change its meaning. It began to change in the late 60’s when the genre assisted and helped the improvement of Rock and Roll. Mainly white people became familiarised with the genre RnB that included gospel and soul music, as well as electric blues. Present day RnB is such a wide music genre which has many hybrids. RnB is a part of everyone’s culture in one way or another, because all music has some what of emotion and meaning to it but just added with a twist of rhythm and beat.

Derivative forms of RnB include these genres: Reggae
Ska
Rock and Roll
Funk
Hip hop
Soul
Electro.

Typical instruments used: Drum kit
Double bass
Electric guitar
Saxophone
Vocalists
Back up vocalists



Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_and_blues