rhythm and blues

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Etymology

From early 1940s, replacing earlier race music.

Noun

rhythm and blues

  1. (music) A style of music combining elements of jazz and blues, with syncopated rhythms and a strong backbeat, originating among African Americans in the 1940s.
    Synonym: R & B
  2. (Cockney rhyming slang) shoes

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