{"id":34,"date":"2022-04-13T10:14:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2022-04-25T16:51:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T20:51:24","slug":"rb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/background-of-the-rb-and-edm-genres\/rb\/","title":{"rendered":"R&#038;B"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_92\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-92 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/files\/2022\/04\/backgroundrnb_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"559\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image of widely loved R&amp;B artists of the past<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The term \u2018Rhythm &amp; Blues\u2019 emerged in the late 1940s as a marketing term to replace the problematic \u201crace music\u201d term, but has been performed since the late 1930s. It is a genre of music that is constantly changing and evolving with the help of new technologies.<\/p>\n<p>R&amp;B is an area of music that typically takes aspects from many other genres, including Blues, Jazz, Folk, and Gospel. This intersection of gospel and R&amp;B can be traced back to its roots: a vision of upward mobility, fun, and hope held by African American youth in the 1960s. This became especially relevant when Motown Records popularized the R&amp;B genre through its usage of multiple black styles of singing in the artists it represented on its label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term \u2018Rhythm &amp; Blues\u2019 emerged in the late 1940s as a marketing term to replace the problematic \u201crace music\u201d term, but has been performed since the late 1930s. It is a genre of music that is constantly changing and evolving with the help of new technologies. R&amp;B is an area of music that typically &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/background-of-the-rb-and-edm-genres\/rb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">R&#038;B<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5140,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[211898],"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/171"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mus122-sp22-07\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}