rhythm and blues
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- noun
- /ˈrɪðəm ənd bluz/
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R&B
- All of the performers they liked were Black, even though their musical styles ranged from rhythm and blues (R&B) to rap to jazz.
- rhythm and blues music
- rhythm and blues style
- rhythm and blues, soul
I don't know, but I know that R&B; is rhythm and Blues.
- I don't know, but I know that R&B; is rhythm and Blues.
- Stu Phillips put our next two records out on May Records, which was Cole Picks's Rhythm and Blues label.
Examples
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In one unit of study, we studied the development of rhythm and blues and its influence on other popular music forms from the 1930s to the present.
Academic text (2003) -
In the 1960s and 1970s, high life incorporated African American gospel, soul, and rhythm and blues music.
Academic text (2009) -
Went out of my way to get a hold of the rhythm and blues records.
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But he had dropped out of school by that time and spent most of his time staying at home listening to rhythm and blues records.
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The kids dig the rhythm and blues.
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Rock 'n' roll music is basically gospel or rhythm and blues.
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When my turn came, I tried an old rhythm and blues song I'd been practicing.
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Right now, gospel is the main influence on contemporary rhythm and blues, and that's due to Aretha.
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Tonight, the club has another guest: Jesse Stone, songwriter and arranger, a key player in the legendary Atlantic Records rhythm-and-blues stable.
Fiction book (1995) -
Today on this program, you will hear gospel, rhythm and blues, and jazz.
Synonyms
A style of popular American music with strong blues and jazz roots
How Energetic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase directly names a musical style composed of the two constituents: 'rhythm' (beat) + 'and' (joining) + 'blues' (a music genre). This compositional pattern for labeling music genres is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer it denotes a type of music, even if they lack historical detail.
Etymology
The name rhythm and blues comes from the two words rhythm and blues. The word rhythm means a steady, 'danceable' beat and blues means a soulful, often 'sad' way of singing, so the phrase came to mean that style of popular music.